From a young age Johnny “Peaches” Capone was urged to join the family business of bootlegging art. During the art prohibition of the 1960’s, when it was illegal to be a dirty, filthy hippie, the art mafia profited three times the money they normally would thanks to the marked up prices. But while Peaches sat and watched his family profit on the creativity of other’s artwork illegally, he admired the cargo they transported and wished to become an artist himself. However, since the family was utilizing all their money in the black market trade, he was forced to finger paint with peach juice.

When the art ban was finally lifted in 2008, the Capone family did what any criminal organization would do and started a proper, legal business selling these once illicit goods. However, Peaches was more interested in the creation aspect as opposed to selling his art for profits like your typical CEO big wig. He set off on a journey and inspired people by being one of the first to tour the nation in an art caravan, at the time still focusing on peach juice on canvas mediums. Peaches would often draw inspiration from his childhood for his paintings, but with only one fruit juice to use (the Capone family was also a prominent seller in tax free peaches) his paintings were often hard to decipher, one of the greatest qualities in the experimental avant-garde genre.

After his non-stop-four-year tour, which was held simultaneously as his hunger strike to raise awareness for peaches (the fruit not the artist), he decided to expand into the world of sculptural art. With his first unveil in 2013, he released his controversial sculpture aptly titled High and Stoned.

Tragically, as Peaches was setting up the exhibit at its opening in the Democratic Republic of North Korea, the monument fell on top of him. He was miraculously unharmed, excluding the fatal injuries he suffered immediately.