Roosevelt Bassett approaches life as an opportunity to express himself with discarded inner city demolitioan materials. While he has lived in Philadelphia his entire adult life, his world view is rooted in the flatlands of South Carolina, from which he migrated in the late Sixties.

He uses the practical arts that he learned on his family’s farm and in the town’s one room schoolhouse, where the teacher “taught all the girls to use a hammer and saw, and all the boys to use a needle and thread.”