By Ryan Kost – SFChronicle.com – Photo: Liz Hafalia/The Chronicle.
Photo: Artist René Yañez pastes his art on a wall fronting the jail cells of the former Mission Police Station, now a parklet.
René Yañez’s family emigrated from Tijuana when he was young. He spent most of his childhood in San Diego. As he got older, he planned on art school and fame, the way many young artists do, even if they deny it. But the Vietnam War intervened, and Yañez found himself in the military in North Carolina, assigned to a medical unit, sketching in his down time.
