Mercadito Restaurants, Chicago and Miami. 2009.
One could almost say that 2009 was the year for my union with Mercadito since it has occupied almost my entire year. The entire summer spent in Chicago was a blast creating 5 different styled and textured murals.
Before there was a train, a wall, even a spray can there was the blackbook, the iconic black hard cover sketchbook that every graffiti artist had, especially us graff heads from A&D high school.
Here is my collection, drawings, mini pieces from my original high school blackbook, all dated around 1982 to around 1986 along with my personal notes, thoughts and design ideas I was expressing so very early in my graffiti carrier
My first foray into sculpture, welding, torches, plasma cutters, was such a long way from colorful Krylon cans! We were so inexperienced, well, I was, luckily Rob (Ferradesigns) was helping me because sculpting in metal is not easy.












