One mural at a time , I've done over 100 murals in Los Angeles . It's about the representation and a message of empowerment and it's achieved not just through me but through the community . My name is Sergio Roberto .
And the reason why I even got into teaching is because it gave me something to care about . When I reflect on the opportunity I have to do these murals . I'm just grateful and the end game for me is not necessarily myself being on the platform but just making sure if I'm gonna leave a trace of anything that it's good food for people , even if I die and pass on like it's still gonna do a good thing in people and from street art to moving masterpieces .
My parents immigrated to here , they saw a lack of representation for Honduran community here in , in southern California . So I think that kind of sparked an interest in them to kinda wanna um represent themselves and also help the community that had a lack of representation . Uh That is what caused them to open the original location in Pacific and Honey New Park .
The biggest lesson I wanna pass to my son Luca who is uh 13 is we come from a culture that is very strong but to never , never , don't let the culture define you . You define the culture now that I've made enough stuff that I can inspire kids to go . If you could do it , maybe I can do it because if you don't see somebody that looks like you doing the things you wanna do , it's a leap that's bigger .
I'm from Los Angeles and I'm a fine artist . Muralist and educated . My dad immigrated actually here to Boyle Heights from Nicaragua .
