yem

a monk of the arts full of platetectonics..."For my friends!" This exclamation reads above a legendary piece in the Rampart District circa 1990. "For My friends!," also reveals a lot about the artist of this piece, the Echo Park writer YEM. He is a man that loves his people. Besides being a graff pioneer, he is a man of community. A big brother, teacher & organic intellectual.YEM is an acronym for Y times Energy = Motion"Yem was the first cat in LA to ever bomb corporates with full color burners," remembers long time friend world famous Mear One. Yem was climbing walls and billboards long before most. With roots back to the LA Bomb Squad K2S and the mastermind behind AMseven, he was once called Krenz and made his mark all city Los Angeles more then once by the late 80s. Chali2NA of Jurrasic 5 also a highly skilled graff writer from the same 'hood recalls, "He did one of my favorite pieces in the Rampart District that stayed up for years." YEM like Chali2Na is an LA pioneer. DJ Marvski was another cat they grew up with.Sometime after 1990 YEM went to, France. Through much of the 90s, he wrote his way around Europe making friends and reading books. These days in 2006 Echo Park Los Angeles YEM also has a heavy pen writing poignant social commentary. His essays on art history, geography and social theory come from a real world perspective. After all, the Guatamalan born, LA raised YEM makes art & shares information, "FOR ALL MY FRIENDS!" (mike the poet)