GRAFFITI ISN’T SAFE, AND IT DOESN’T HAPPEN IN A STUDIO OR A CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT. IT’S UNPREDICTABLE—A DRUG FOR ADRENALINE JUNKIES, CONVICTS, AND THE UNSTABLE.

From Author: Popular culture is currently navigating a space where street and graffiti art have become more celebrated than ever. But the challenges of the artists are often unknown or forgotten, as most people only see the end product. Here, Los KYM's gives readers a rarely seen look into graffiti art and street culture, capturing the energy and story of a crew operating within a subculture that has grown seemingly without boundaries.

This book celebrates the beautiful yet painful lifecycle of the artistic process and details the steps along the way. Vibrant, urgent prose takes readers into the emotions and physical experience of bringing street art into existence, capturing the moments of creation as well as the comradery of souls bound by these acts of expression. Each story is a real-life mini action adventure.

Underpinning the story of the art, integral to Chicago, and its growth into a city internationally recognized for live-action urban painting. As the art ignites a path to form global networks with an underlying honor among graffiti vandals, Los KYM's brings readers along as they create unsponsored works of art in the under-bellies of cities around the world. Never-before-seen photography and previously untold stories detail Los KYM's trajectory from local artists to world travelers to incarcerated and back to creators with reignited passion—all in the service of a form of artistic expression that is as physical as it is visual.