Blues Garden

Wade explains:

“There has been one constant in my different paths and trajectories through life: the Blues. I was ordained at an early age when I used to ride my bicycle after elementary school in Houston’s Third Ward over to Lightnin’ Hopkins’ house over on Dowling Street, where I listened to the famed bluesman play his music on the front porch.”

The fig tree in Blues at Night: is a Remembrance Tree, similar to those at Buddhist temples in Japan. Visitors can inscribe their thoughts. prayers, wishes, remembrances, and messages on paper and then affix them to the tree.

Blues at Night is my visual tribute to that form of musical expression and to those artists who were also baptized in the same muddy water.