"Raleigh is known as the city of oaks... playing off that my concept was built around this idea of a city/fortress that is forming around an oak tree... sort of the heart or life blood of the city (the tree of life). I decided that it needed some musical and psychedelic undertones as well. On the venue was originally Red Hat and was changed... and we didn’t catch it until it was too late.." -Justin Helton
