I painted him because nobody else was going to.
Murphy Wyatt@wyattmurphy5521
3 days ago
I painted him because nobody else was going to.
A thirteen-year-old boy who reads physics textbooks on the bus and gets called weird for it. Who wears headphones to block out the noise of a neighborhood that does not understand quiet ambition.
His mother asked me to paint him. Not a memorial. Not a tribute. He is alive and well and probably doing homework right now.
She said: paint him so the neighborhood sees what I see.
Spray paint and acrylic on concrete. 15 x 10 feet.
Two days. A ladder. Sunburn.
Worth every blister.
The boy came to see it yesterday. He stood in front of himself for five minutes and said nothing.
Then he said: I look tall.
You are, kid. You are.
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