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This is a personal piece that I created for my sister in law Cheryl. She was looking for something kinda different and unique, and while she likes my work she is not easily impressed, so for this painting I stepped back, thought a little different and gave her a heart felt piece that no one else would have, a one-of-a-kind painting nothing like my usual stuff. 

This is a painting representing the Westlake District of Daly City, an aerial perspective of where my wife and I would hang out as kids, at Cheryl’s apartment on Crestwood between Belmar and South Mayfair. The dot represents where her apartment was on the map. The reason I picked this is because of the sentimental impact it has in the message, I have known my wife for 28 years and the earliest memories I have of her include the living room and front lawn of the apartment complex, as well as when I met Cheryl, a hardworking single mom, super cool, let us smoke and chill as long as you followed her rules you were good. It wasn’t full of the greatest memories but there were definitely many more memories to come, this was the jump off. 

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