Echoes of the Garage

Fragments of life in Los Angeles — art, film, street stories, and the quiet rebuilding of a man. Start here: Best Of • About • Subscribe.

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September 5, 2025

“Happy Liquor Happy man”

English Version 📓 Friday September 5, 2025 8:03 p.m. South Central. Corner of Avalon. Sun still high, 6:17 p.m. — not midnight, not hidden. Daylight. I parked in the shade. Thought nothing of it. Pulled out my cases for a liquor store delivery. Happy Liquor Store. Funny name, right? First thing I see? A crackhead… Continue reading

Journal

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August 16, 2025

The Ten-Minute Return 🥷 — A Hood Chronicle

From South Central to wherever the pavement runs — snapshots of life, raw and uncut. Hollywood. The place where dreams get chased — few caught, most lost. The lights of L.A. shine so pretty, so untouchable… until you drift closer to the strip known as the Blade… B-L-A-D-E. There, the ladies of the night shift… Continue reading

Hood Chronicles

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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.

street-chronicles

“Happy Liquor Happy man”

The Ten-Minute Return 🥷 — A Hood Chronicle