As a Chicago Muralist, I was honored to have won the commission for the Starbucks Reserve Roastery, their largest store in the world.
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That's my dad in the background. I didn't tell anyone, but he had terminal cancer at the time of this project and I wanted to paint his likeness into my most iconic mural.
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