Always Running #4

During the last chapter that I read, I became very interested in what Luis was doing. As a part of the organization he was in to better the Mexican-American community, Luis, along with others, went around East Los Angeles looking for walls and buildings that had explicit graffiti on it. Instead of letting them be, or even cleaning them up, they would find the owner of the wall, and ask permission to repaint it as a mural that the whole community could enjoy.
I thought this was a very cool idea, so I decided to do some research on the topic. I found out that Los Angeles is considered the city with the most wall/building murals in the world. Famous muralists like Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco painted works there, as well as local unknown artists and civilians just like Luis.
In the memoir, Luis describes many of his artworks in detail, and I noticed that they all have a common theme. With a very impressionistic style, his artwork is heavily influenced by the rough life he had lead so far, involving women, drugs, and gang violence. As I browsed through pictures of murals in Los Angeles, I noticed that many, if not all of them were just like the way Luis described his. Among my favorites was this artwork, by an unknown artist: