 "Le Garçon" is his nod to his adopted city with a depiction of a bustling Parisian waiter in early morning action.Mays' submarine installations include cross cultural depictions of Russian culture in "The Russian Sub" and "The Kursk" which pays tribute to sailors of the doomed Kursk in the Barents Sea.Mays' work is featured in American exhibits both at the University of Maryland's David C. Driskell Center For The Study of The Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and The African Diaspora, and in Rice University's Travelling Art Exhibition, wherein his “The Last Vernissage” figures prominently among the likes of Romare Bearden, Beauford Delaney, Herbert Gentry, Lois Mailou Jones, Richard Mayhew, Henry O. Tanner, and others, in Larry and Brenda Thompson's “Tradition Redefined, A collection of African American Artists."