LA WEEKLY WRITES ON THE STRUGGLES GRAFITTI ARTIST AND STREET ARTIST FACE HERE IN L.A
"The art world sees a vibrant movement. Metro's cops see jail fodder."
By Simone Wilson Thursday, Aug 30 2012
"Sand, who adores the word "chola" and says it is part of her culture, is furious, "When I say the word 'chola,' it's not negative," she says. "It's so Latin girls can relate to what I paint. What I'm showing is that if you come from a low-income, gangbanging area, like me, you can break out of that."
Her trademark characters — sexy cartoon girls with giant, feathery eyelashes — are among the cutesier outdoor artworks dotting the L.A. area. But since last year, Sand, who's in her early 20s, has seen five of her murals, all painted with permission from a building owner, destroyed by officials in downtown Los Angeles and in East L.A.
"Sight would spend a one-year stint alongside rapists and murderers at Folsom State Prison, where he says fellow inmates almost killed him for hanging back during a race riot. But worse than hard-core Folsom was L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca's own Men's Central Jail, where Sight says that, among other degradations, he saw prison guards break the fingers of inmates who misbehaved."
Such bullshit what is happening out there. It happened before in the 90s too cause of fox 11 reporting on tag bangers. Hope Sight and his new fam are aight
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