Juanita Beverly has cut slits in a canvas, and woven strips of canvas through the slits. On this textile-like canvas she will create a painting. Art is woven into Juanita Beverly’s life’s canvas. Juanita was drawing by age six. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

"What's it like being homeless?" I ask. The question perks a prompt response from the 5'61/2" ex-biker, ex-boxer. Speaking with a raspy deep voice in rapid bursts, "Its great. I can come and go as I please. I don't have to answer to nobody." Pausing, he takes a short pull on his cigarette and says, "I'm as free as a bird. I get up when I want to and I go to sleep by the river under a blanket of stars."