mando

Name: mando
Age: 28
Kind: chango azul
Home: Austin,Ttexas
Occupation: former change purse changed artist
Obsessions: late night pizza binges and watching Alf's hit talk show
Most proud of: learning to drive stick
Dreams of: having his zipper removed and falling in love
Friend: The (archives: Nov.30.2005)

Bio: Mando moved to Texas from Seattle, washington where he worked in the pike place market selling paint by number pictures of the Space Needle. His art was really only zeroxed images that he mounted onto carboard canvas. Public humiliation from an art critic forced mando out of town. It was then that he moved to Austin, Texas. In Austin he began making sculptures of the Alamo from styrofoam but ended that venture when he realized the Alamo was in San Antonio. Unable to find a really good landmark in Austin, he resorted to making portraits of his family from pinto beans. Today Mando owns a multi-million dollar art empire in the downtown warehouse distric. People travel from all over the world to buy his bean art. Mando dreams of the day a famous doctor will come to buy his art and stay to remove the zipper that is a daily reminder that he is really only a coin purse.