to bring an image from the conscious mind and put it out into the world. i paint a lot of stuff that's from my childhood, reflecting back on my life, so i just thought the name fit. - what is it that you evoke from inside your head, that you bring out? - i paint about the community. before, when i started painting, i was doing a lot of political work. and then i used to just watch a bunch of documentaries about stuff happening around the world, people starving. - inspired by community figures like salvador allende, roberto clemente, and jackie robinson, evoca1's early work protested injustice. - so i started doing these drawings of these starving kids, and i started putting them all over my neighborhood. somebody saw them and was like, you need to do that in wynwood. - yeah. growing up, evoca1 didn't have access to a formal arts education. that was for the rich. so like a lot of kids from the dominican republic, he took up america's pastime. - so i dedicated my life to playing baseball. i started playing college, and got a couple, like, interests from major league teams. while i was trying to sign a contract, my arm blew out. - no way. - um, i didn't get to sign a contract. my dreams were done. - wow. - so, like, there was a little bit of depression. i didn't know what i was going to do.