A chat with Aaron De La Cruz about his path from tagger to teacher to artist.

Brandon Shigeta – documentarian

“Como lograste casarte con un estilo y no continuar en la eternidad de la búsqueda.” – apologies for my horrible Spanish when speaking

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FELIZ CUMPLE MIJA!!! Before you were born someone told me having a daughter was going to make me soft. Sheeeeiiiiittt!!!! Paloma you are fearless, creative, loud (brown and proud) as hell. All of this while being dipped in rainbow, glitter and sparkle EVERYDAY. You have made me everything but softer if anything I’m trying to be more like you! As I write this I’m doing me best to not go overboard with words but there just aren’t enough to describe you (I mean your favorite color is rainbow and you are a Leo so that right there say is all haha). I also wanted to share pics of you since birth but this past week will do. Your mom, brothers and I wish you a very happy fifth birthday and please DON’T STOP BEING YOU. You make every day feel like Saturday morning cartoons and we love you for it. ✊🏽🌈❤️✊🏽

A post shared by Aaron De La Cruz (@aarondelacruz) on Aug 10, 2020 at 10:30pm PDT

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The release of the face mask project I did with @dsptch is HERE (link in bio). In my head I planned on having a photographer come and take photos of my family wearing the masks but I didn’t want to force it so you are looking at pics of my kids taken by yours truly. The masks come in three sizes (adult large, medium and kids). All proceeds from the sales will go towards two non profits doing amazing work with our youth that I stand behind @ahc_oakland and @borderkindness. I want to also thank you all in advance for the continued support and I hope you and your families are healthy and happy as can be right now. #aarondelacruz #dsptch_sf ✊🏽

A post shared by Aaron De La Cruz (@aarondelacruz) on Jul 1, 2020 at 8:08am PDT

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randomly decided to hop in the car and drive along PCH1 to blast music and chill with the family. Because all the parks and beaches are closed we drove for an hour aimlessly until we went down a road that had a dead end. Parked the car and walked for another two hours without one complaint. Electronics were replaced with some banana slugs and laughter. ✊🏽

A post shared by Aaron De La Cruz (@aarondelacruz) on May 18, 2020 at 10:48am PDT