“To me, your history dictates a lot of what you are and/or what you don't want to be or what you want to be, right. So, when I'm designing for Good Neighbor, I'm always referencing my childhood, my wife's childhood, our backgrounds, our culture, or the countries we're from, the moments we had in different parts of our life that inform certain decisions. That's where you can find the most honest version of design is usually from those experiences, right. But it can be from a conversation. We could have an amazing conversation today, and I can learn something about you, and that could have formed the next projects. Spaces all usually have a couple of walls, you know. They usually have paint. And some spaces can have the same paint as another spot, right. But it just feels different based on lighting, based on what humans are in the space. It's hard to get a word around this, like, to me, it's like the feeling of design, and feeling of design comes when someone does something authentically. And if they do it authentically, which means that they're not trying to follow a trend, they're not trying to follow what they've seen in a magazine, or what they've seen in someone else's spaces. And you can be influenced by a lot of that, but you're really trying to follow your sense of what that is.

“I just love it. Like Baltimore is a great city. And there's a lot of hidden gems and great people here as well. And you can't find anyone like a Baltimore person anywhere in the world. Like I've been to LA, Miami, whatever, you name it, and galleries and great spaces. And it just something about people from Baltimore. It's a certain way about us that I just love.

“I just was reminded why I started doing music. When I was younger, I didn't have any other release. Like I grew up in a family where it was like, you know, don't talk about what goes on. Nobody needs to know what goes on in this family, in this house, dadada. So it was like, we didn't express emotions. We didn't talk about what was going on. So I will put it in some music, and I'll put it into art. And then when I started getting good at it,

“I feel like I was given everything I needed. And that's one of the pieces of advice, that's literally what I was told was we have everything we need.