His early artistic influence was his late uncle, David Zuze, who Lemu watched painting as a hobby while he was younger.
Precariot is a term that combines the word “proletariat” with “precarious” to describe an emerging “barbarian” class of migrant laborers and professionals living and working precariously, holding temporary underpaid jobs, lacking a political voice and increasingly frustrated by their living and working conditions.
[8] According to Lemu, Passages for the Undocumented[9] began more than a year earlier in response to a practical problem many artists face: a lack of space to showcase their art.
Inspired by the panhandlers he encountered, Lemu started to imitate their method, writing his own slogans on cardboard signs and standing on street corners around Houston.
The slogans concentrate Lemu's experience as a third-world migrant artist into statements that combine conceptual art practice with transcultural displacement.