The Ballad of Iltopia

The Ballad of Iltopia is a visual representation of mature situations

innercity children face in their everyday lives. For inner city youth,

we see an ailing population of misguided individuals. The values

that the average American is expected to learn by the time they

reach adulthood are absent. Among other things, young men are

growing up having never tossed a baseball around with their fathers.

This leads me to ask: the following questions: Who is gaining from

all this? Who gains from the liquor store on every corner? Who

gains from constant death and despair? Who gains from the blatant

ignorance that continues to plague my community? With these illustrations,

I aim to provide a different perspective to the evergrowing

topics: race relations, interpersonal conflicts, and self efficacy.