In the 1980s, Wynwood, Miami, was considered an unsafe lower-to-middle-class inner-city neighborhood. Filled with drugs and plagued with crime, the neighborhood was far from a tourist destination but close enough to the design districts of Miami to catch the eyes of developers.
Now, just three miles north of downtown Miami lies a lively art district boasting an assortment of bars, restaurants, world-class art galleries and a slew of hard-working immigrants unwilling to conform. Everything that the neighborhood of Wynwood, Miami, consists of is a canvas. Telephone poles, businesses, benches, walls, sidewalks, and street signs are all dressed by a paintbrush or can of spray paint. The people and the artists who visit share their stories in the form of pictures emulated on whatever blank space is allowed.