Years ago there was an art car in San Francisco with the words, “How many paychecks are you away from being homeless?” scrawled across its back window.

These mixed media paintings are my way of exploring the heart wrenching dystopian reality of the homeless crisis in our city.

There are fewer art cars and more homeless people today in our city. As an artist living in San Francisco witnessing the homeless crisis first hand, it is impossible not to acknowledge that this has happened during a time of a growing wealth disparity in the Bay Area.

The men, women and pets living on the street in abject poverty deserve societies help in finding a better way forward in the future.