Dictador Art Masters Foundation ap- pointed LL to be a project manager for this unique street art event. In May 2018 in Colombia, we organized a gathering of some amazingly talented and well-known street artists.

For so-called “urban explorers” who travel undercover with backpacks full of aerosol in their home cities, this is a rare tropical opportunity, a “spraycation” for artists who are specifically invited to enter through the front gate rather than to crawl through a hole in the fence. Closed for decades and slowly returning to the earth, the former distillery still contains all the necessary armature of industrial production equipment that was used to operate it; including its cavernous ovens, looming tanks and smoky charcoaled wood barrels – along with cracked concrete, tall grasses, a murky stream, marching centipedes, some blue spotted wood lizards and iguanas

The vast floor-plan that is spread over neighboring buildings and lots is a real-life playground of creativity all interconnected by intersecting ladders, raised wire platforms, winding hallways, open washbasins and the frequent songs of swooping birds who dart in and out of the hidden recesses of this charming relic of industrial past.

The event marks the first phase of a new program introducing international Street Artists to a uniquely brilliant set of opportunities, DAM is laying plans to eventually take these pieces on the road and raise funds for charity.

The first chapter of Dictador Art Masters is completed. The future remain to be written.