“Walking While Black In A Hoodie While Eating Skittles.” By Victor-Hugo Vaca II.
- Size: 39 x 53
- Date: March 23, 2012
- Medium: oil, acrylic, graffiti markers, Leonard Cohen “Everybody Know’s” lyrics on Post It pads, duct tape on architectural plans for a U.S. Veterans Hospital that failed to materialize because of fallout from the Wall Street bank-bailout-recession.
In painting his “Diary of the World on Canvas“, the Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca II created this piece live on the FOX –WPBR, Byron Eggers Show with H. Love and Billy Hitz, during an impromptu, in-studio acoustic Modern Art Music Movement™ MAMM Jam in Lake Worth, Florida, with the hard rock band, Behold The Wolf, featuring guitarist Mitch Tanne of Iron Maiden and Jackson Browne, lead singer, Vinnie Dee, and Dan Thee on percussion.
During the broadcast news, Geraldo Rivera seemed to blame Trayvon Martin for wearing a hoodie, on his fatal walk to a Sanford, Florida convenience store, for some Skittles and an Arizona Iced Tea, through a community patrolled by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain.
The square notes taped to the art piece are lyrics from Leonard Cohen’s, “Everybody Knows”, performed by Victor-Hugo Vaca II, live on the airwaves before the Modern Art Music Movement™ Acoustic MAMM Jam with Behold The Wolf and Iron Maiden guitarist, Mitch Tanne.
