![]() ![]() In the very beginning, I was a troubled latchkey kid, who desperately needed a creative outlet. ![]() In a world and industry where commerce overtakes creativity, my abstract work aims to be visually engaging as my main focus is driven towards constructing unusual artistic apparel which is my way of producing significant commentary on Chicano lives and struggle. Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community? Our narratives are valuable too, and this is the significance and integrity I wish to provide through destacarse. The people you never see featured in popular magazines, or media. The struggling family and community I was born into, aided in my drive for innovation and lust for “honest art” which to me, is realistic, relatable commentary on underprivileged lives. Today I have been called by many people an artist, entrepreneur, storyteller, and designer. I was the first to graduate with a college degree and discipline myself in my artistic projects. My background also is from a simple working class community. My apparel investigates new forms as I combine motifs of Latino lifestyle concepts and other honest expressions I feel through the communities and people of East Los Angeles. I produce hand crafted apparel with themes of immigration, labor, cholo silhouettes, and other personal mementos. Being Born and raised in East Los Angeles, I have come to realize how my Chicano identity and Latino background has become the originating genes to my body of work that is my small developing label, destacarse. The community, It places me under its tongue, and I’m absorbed into its gums. Our sweat drips and pools around our ankles. Our skin sizzles in the summer as we hustle under the sun. Our blood, it gets misplaced with that sticky tar. The concrete with graffiti, so pure, however its expression is often misunderstood. Where we spill our teeth over lovers during the heat of the summer where we love. Where frightening gunshots get mistaken for fluorescent firecrackers. Where artisan hand painted eyebrows became a fad and rosaries dangle from our throats. East Los Angeles is where our unnamed neighbors sit next to us on the public buses and crowded mercados. Growing up in East LA, we get our nutrients from the corners. Hi Rene, can you tell us more about your background and the role it’s played in shaping who you are today? We had the good fortune of connecting with Rene Camarillo and we’ve shared our conversation below.
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