I’m Joseph from Cali but my brother and I were born in Lima, Peru, and were adopted by our American family. We were both babies when we were adopted and my bro and I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since. I’m a mellow, cool, nice down-to-earth type dude. I am a graffiti artist and I love drawing, listening to rap and Latin rap music and going along with the flow. I have a learning disability but that doesn’t stop me from anything.

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The first time I ever started drawing was at the age of six in 1996, and back then I loved art. When my parents introduced me to watching movies with them that’s when my art took off. I drew movie scenes from action, horror, and sometimes adventure, and whatever popped into my head at that time. I made stick figures of people jumping off the sinking ship from ‘Titanic’ or drawing sea monsters, dinosaurs or dragons. I drew my pictures on the back of my mom’s edited pages from her books.

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I’d drawn a lot but eventually had to change the tone of my work. I would travel by public transportation to places like San Francisco and go to the water to find a place to set up and begin listening to my music (hip hop/rap, rock, punk.) I would pull out my bag that has my pens and sketch pad and draw whatever comes to my mind. Then my art changed when I created a drawing on 10/23/20, deciding to put my graffiti words mixed in with doodle art as my background. The feedback I got from people was overwhelmingly positive. One of my friends said my art and colors come to life.