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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October 28, 2025

You Don’t Have to Wait for the Storm

📓 Sunday, October 19, 2025 — 4:39 p.m. El Mercadito, East L.A. There’s a woman who always buys from me. She’s in her forties — kind eyes, warm smile, a little tired. Her mother usually runs a stall here at El Mercadito, but she’s in Mexico right now, getting treatment. So the daughter’s been holding… Continue reading

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August 30, 2025

🥷 HOOD CHRONICLES — Remembering the 90’s, Part I

Downtown L.A. to South Central Streets filled with people like ants, shoulder to shoulder, each one carrying their own story. Downtown Los Angeles — the crater of jewels No wires or machines needed. Time travel rides the swirls of smoke. Light the cigarette, smoke curls… Memory — step in. The mind drowns in color. Step… 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.

street stories

You Don’t Have to Wait for the Storm

🥷 HOOD CHRONICLES — Remembering the 90’s, Part I