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Until this year, an Orlando street artist -- street name "Dolla"-- made his art between 3 and 6 a.m., to avoid the cops. He'd plaster buildings with giant posters depicting animated characters and messages of peace until he ran out of wheat paste or the sun came up. A 3-foot-tall poster took less than a minute to post, a 10-footer, less than five.
But last year, one of his "poster bombs" landed him in jail. It was a wake-up call for the 34-year-old artist, whose day job is designing displays for Disney stores.
Today, Dolla is a star in the world of "legal" graffiti, making his art on one of Orlando's most prestigious -- and unlikely -- stages: the back of a Vietnamese restaurant.
One of the city's few so-called "permission" walls, the south wall of Pho 88, on Mills Road near Colonial Drive, is an ever-changing tableau of pieces by some of the region's best spray-can artists. Recently, pieces ranged from Dolla's signature Martian-like creatures, in green and purple, to a bald, goateed man with a scowl by artist Jose "Ric" Sosa, to an imposing face of Jesus created in black and white by Willie "Wie" Soto.
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Source - Orlando Sentinel
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