#Yolocon | Graffiti Tagger To Mural Artist

Meet Laurynas Buzinskas. He is a graphic designer, illustrator, street artist, and muralist. Hailing from Vilnius, Lithuania, from a young age he was fascinated by American hip hop culture. He also had quite the penchant for drawing. These two interests were what initially led him into the world of graffiti.

As Laurynas puts it, “I met these older guys, and they invited me to go spray with them… I was going out at least three, four times a week in the nighttime. My parents didn’t know about it at all. I was just leaving, going out to spray with them all night long. In the morning, I’d come back and go to school.”

While it’s easy to get caught up in such an engrossing lifestyle, there’s no way it could have lasted forever. Eventually, the worst thing a young Laurynas could have imagined happened: his parents found out, catching him sneaking in during the wee hours of the morning. His father initially thought his son had been committing robberies, and while the revelation that he had instead been tagging was something of a relief, the elder Buzinskas expressed vehement disapproval. However, Laurynas had a passion for street art, and not even his father’s warnings could stop him from doing what he loved.