Adidas in collaboration with Salomée  Souag to design, concept, and paint a mural that celebrates the strength, beauty, and inclusivity of sport. 

All my work is a story about representing people of color unapologetically. It’s a fight, a struggle, a celebration, a dream - a form of protest. My  murals portray women of color of all cultures and backgrounds, taking up as much space through their hair, features and movements. The colors are bright, unapologetically bold and in your face. I want  to embrace multi-cultural and multi-layered women and show their power, as a form of resistance to the hegemonic and patriarchal systems of oppression that exist in this country and all over the world. I want to represent the individuals who don't fit in a box. Being a women of color, a queer women, a women, an immigrant, a survivor sculpted the creative today, it is the reason for my being and my work. I create for the underrepresented, I create for the minorities, I create for the ones who don't fit in, who are different.

A message of togetherness, we need to come together in this very awakening moment in our time to fight against a system that never wanted us to win. We need to focus on what communities should look like being self dependent, we need to choose community over individualism, it's not about working to gain things for ourselves anymore, now is the time to be selfless to care about the people around us that are hurting, to give back and to redistribute love.

We are the future.
Our voices and dreams are sacred.
We deserve to take up space.


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Photography Haley Busch and Brian Brose / Assistant Painters J&S Signs and Andrea Furtado

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