Echoes of the Garage

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April 30, 2026

“The mountains are still there”

It’s strange how something that big can disappear just because you stop looking. A moment about fear, attention, and learning to choose your response. Continue reading

Journal

awareness, Echoes of the Garage, fear, growth, life perspective, mindset, reflection, writing
April 29, 2026

“This might be my only time being human”

I guess the last live performance I saw… is every day I wake up. This is the performance. Most of the time… I move like I already know everything. Like I know where I came from. Where I’m going. What this all means. But the truth is… I don’t. And I heard something yesterday that… Continue reading

Daily Prompt

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November 6, 2025

Ease Back Into Motion (The Loops We Live In)

📓 Captain’s Log — Thursday, November 6, 2025⏰ Wake-Up: Alarm hit at 5:30 a.m., but I ignored it. Still running on broken sleep. Finally got up around 6:20, made my coffee, cleaned up, and tried to shake off that fog. Been feeling a bit under the weather — had one of those Starbucks lemon teas… Continue reading

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#Balance #Growth, #CaptainsLog, #GymLife, awareness, life, Los Angeles, Self Reflection
October 12, 2025

“The Dream Feels Real”

📓 Sunday, October 12 — 5:03 p.m. Today I felt something shift. Not in a dramatic way—more like a quiet click in the gears. I was standing in line at Costco, waiting for a hot dog and a slice of pizza, surrounded by a crowd of people. That’s when I noticed a couple. They were… Continue reading

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About Me

I’m Roberto Sanchez — illustrator, writer, and delivery driver in Los Angeles.

By day, I sell plastic bags out of a van across South Central.

By night, I draw, write, and build my life brick by brick.

I graduated from Cal State Long Beach in 2022 with a BFA in Illustration, but art has never been just school to me. It’s survival, reflection, and expression. My illustrations come slow — patience is part of the work.

I live and create out of a converted garage.

That small room became Echoes of the Garage — the place where I put words, drawings, and the pieces of a life I’m rebuilding one step at a time.

Here you’ll find journal entries, Hood Chronicles, and visual experiments that try to capture the absurd, the painful, and the human in everyday life.

This is where I put it all: drawings, words, and fragments of a life in motion.

This site is where I put it all: drawings, words, and fragments of a life in motion.

awareness

“The mountains are still there”

“This might be my only time being human”

Ease Back Into Motion (The Loops We Live In)

“The Dream Feels Real”