“It was all a dream” is both a homage to Biggie Smalls, who rapped this most famous line on his first studio album in 1994, and a way to describe a dream-sequence. In this work it is used in the same way as Biggie in that the artist has always dreamed of creating art in the local community and this is literally a dream come true, and in a dream-sequence sense that the desert landscape with patterned cacti and the deep purple night sky invokes a feeling of restfulness and reflection. The “Wally” has been added to inject some light-heartedness and randomness.
