[10][12] Silva briefly left Indianapolis to attend the California Institute of the Arts to complete a master's degree.

[10] Silva's work includes multimedia, collage, painting, sculpture, digital media, photography, and murals.

Branded "Cultural Cannibals" (which includes clothing apparel)[14] the parties featured Silva's films with music by Long.

[10] In 2011 he completed a mural, "The Death of Ambition," that was featured in story by The New York Times about Super Bowl XLVI and art in Indianapolis.

[25][26] In 2012 he completed an installation of a sculpture, "Rock Steady Gravity Sketch," near an apartment buildings at intersection of 10th Street and Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis.

[32] That same year, he worked to complete a film documenting the creation of the Black Lives Matter street mural in Indianapolis.