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Chino Hills artist Abel Izaguirre creates tiny tributes to his old home: South L.A. – The man who watched his brothers fall victim to the streets found refuge in art. Many of his Locsters — such as ‘Tattoo Tony’ — are real people depicted as toys. From: latimes.com
Tagged: California, gangs, Los AngelesPosted on: June 2nd, 2008
To those new to street art, there are aspects of Abel Izaguirre’s empire that might surprise and alarm. Many of the 37-year-old Chino Hills artist’s designs are callous celebrations of guns and dice, turf and cognac — of the gangster life that defines and afflicts so much of the metropolitan area. They appear on everything from shoes to skateboards to, by special request, caskets.
On one of Izaguirre’s T-shirts, Ben Franklin — Founding Father, inventor of the bifocal, et cetera — points a Beretta pistol into the viewer’s eyes. On another, a skeleton’s hands are clasped in prayer in front of an ominous vision of the L.A. skyline. “Perdoname por mi vida loca,” that one says. “Forgive me for my crazy life.”"*
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