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A collection of photos I’ve taken as I’ve walked through Downtown LA usually in search for a honey lavender latte. 

Photos taken on our trip to Mexico City 7/2025 

Estrada Courts, located in Boyle Heights and one of L.A.'s oldest housing projects, was built to address the housing shortage as Los Angeles and the surrounding region became a major center for military-related manufacturing during WW2  Several years ago I took a stroll through the Estrada Courts housing projects to document some of it's well known and maybe not so well known murals. I photographed just a few of the 80 murals that were painted by Chicano and Chicana muralists with the help of young residents back in the early 70's       

I had the opportunity to sit down with Adrian Huerta to record an episode of his podcast, The Creative Dad Pod, and share a bit of my creative journey and how I’ve balanced that with being a Father and now Grandfather. You can watch the complete episode on YouTube here.  https://youtu.be/mJFhEMTfYVE?si=VkEgESTEOg9keVui The episode is also available on Spotify here https://open.spotify.com/episode/3BiuvOtqcc51TLAx4mxSAq?si=xlFkXQRYQauvIlrvd94Gqw

Wow! Has it been 3 years already? 3 years since Mi Vida Boutique offered me my first solo show.  Mi Vida reached out to me on IG in May of '13 offering me a solo show. What!?!? That was intimidating and not something I ever expected but with the encouragement of my wife, Anna, and friends, hell, I went for it. Did pretty good too I must say. Family and friends came out to support and show love. Lowriting was in the works then and I knew the show and any opportunity I that came my way would be a great way to introduce my work to people and get my name out there ahead of the book. Plenty has happened with...