Mad Vision
Melanie Cervantes
Commissioned by Youth Sounds
Spray paing and Acrylic Painting on canvas, 2007
Private Collection
Mad Vision is one of my first commissions for a Bay Area youth organization called Youth Sounds. Founded in 2001 at McClymonds High School in West Oakland , Youth Sounds served school-age youth through programs in video, audio, and music production in a wide variety of school-based and after school programs in some of the most challenging neighborhoods in Oakland.
The executive director, Ken Ikeda, was the person who told me about artists like Estria, Favianna Rodriguez and my now partner Jesus Barraza and a business they owned called Tumis. The work Tumis did creating the logo for Youth Sounds was a huge influence on this stencil painting. My goal was to depict a youth filmaker whose "mad vision" could provide us with a better future.
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