By Susan Froyd – WestWord.com – Photo: Courtesy of Josiah Lee Lopez.
Image: Josiah Lee Lopez, “Pakal,” 2017.
I started to draw a lot when I was about ten — in fifth grade, to be exact. I liked Godzilla and monsters and Transformers, and I liked graffiti, too. But I only started doing actual graffiti on the streets when I was about sixteen. I wrote CREDO 1 and 8BALL, and then in ’93 I began to tag ZEPOL, and the rest is history. I also have a background in fine-arts painting and drawing.