Inspired by sitting on a porch or gazing out a window, letting the mind wander across the landscape, Nieves created a bright composition of Indiana native flowers and plants by incorporating emblematic images from the Eskenazi Health Art Collection together with Native American and Indiana state symbols incorporated with graffiti shapes, as Ismael Muhammad Nieves comments below:Indiana’s landscape is beautiful year-round.

[1]Crossroads was commissioned by Eskenazi Health as part of a re-imagining of the organization's historical art collection and to support "the sense of optimism, vitality and energy" of its new campus in 2013.

[2][3] In response to its nationwide request for proposals, Eskenazi Health received more than 500 submissions from 39 states, which were then narrowed to 54 finalists by an independent jury.

Ismeal Muhammud Nieves spent his early years in New York City before moving to Indiana as a teen.

Nieves has completed several public mural commissions and has been involved closely with Subsurface, a graffiti event in Indianapolis.