This piece focuses on where the intersection between race and class has informed my and many of our collective childhoods. I'm examining how the intersection of being African-American and hailing from a lower class have led to deficits and how we have had to “make do” as children. The threads holding together the notion of the endless bliss associated with childhood wonder seems to come undone when one has to “make do”. One recurring point of inaccessibilty is the inaccessibilty of greenspace due to the mandated infrastructures of poor black neighborhoods. In these childhoods we can't remain blissfully unware of the impact of our adversities. My painting creates this fantastical fruitfulness that gratifies my inner child but also often acknowledges the "making do" of the past and the unconventional charm these memories have. In this piece Shelton Johnson calls the children from these government regulated neighborhoods back into the natural world.