“Family is Everything" 

Based off the Norman Rockwell painting "Freedom from Want”

The Biking Limner

The goal of You’re US is for Klein to paint portraits of three people from every state. So far, he’s painted 40 Americans from ten different states. In exchange for his Renaissance-style portraits, Klein’s subjects give him room, board, and the opportunity to record stories from their lives. The resulting audio has been featured on NPR’s Snap Judgment and played alongside video of his paintings at UnionDocs, a nonprofit center for documentary art in Brooklyn.

As an added difficulty, Klein travels from subject to subject by bike. He’s traveled 14,000 miles in the past three years—almost all of those miles in the summer heat with 80 pounds of art and life supplies in saddlebags hanging off his wheels. Sometimes he rides a hundred miles in a day

Who is Babalu?

Around the world, priests, academics, actors, and others have formed an intimate connection with the voice of an earthly guy named Babalu, yet none of the voices they know sound the same. In Hollywood he’ll brave the stage, in Nigeria he’ll drum with tribes, in cartoons he’ll cross desert plains, shifting his age, gait, and accent to fit his new audience. Priests of the Yoruba religion say that everyone has their own road to follow with Babalu Aye, that he reveals himself as he wants to be revealed.

Then it is for you to find out who your Babalu is.