During his time in Chicago he was shot during a robbery attempt. This near death experience put Mr.Imagination in a coma for over a month and a half. Meanwhile he was in the coma he describes himself as touching base with the source of life. Almost as if he had connected with all different nationalities from all over the world. After he emerged from the coma he started wandering the streets of Chicago with a renewed sense of purpose. He saw his survival as something special. Making him feel that every moment he had was precious. During one of his many walks he found some sandstone lying in a vacant lot. The material had been dumped there and he quickly saw its potential. When he looked at it he could see ancient faces that he started carving out. Since he has no formal schooling he used the tools that he had, a screw driver. The faces that came out looked more like kings and queens from eastern countries like India or Thailand than something from America. Finally he says that ”art has been around for a long long time. The first self taught artists were the cavemen. They didnt have no schools teaching them how to do it. But they just saw a wall and thought that there was something about it that was too plain. They were born with a gift to draw these animals and they passed that on to people like you and me. Thats what Im doing, just passing on what I was given.