This series was done in 2016 trying to magnify the political efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15 /hr after decades held at $7 and change. There were people chained in poverty over the conservative resistance of our political leaders, None of the 15 paintings has a person in the piece to illiminate ethnicity from the arguments. This show was produced as a One Man, One Day show on Boston City Hall on Labor Day or 2017 and on the Washinginton DC Mall on Veterans Day, that same year. As of the publishing of this new site in 2025, the minimum wage has yet to be formally raised nationwide.