Roberto Lugo installs a gigantic vase and fire hydrant in Madison Square Park
Wallpaper | 22.05.2026 00:25
As a kid growing up in the Kensington neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Roberto Lugo didn’t have access to art classes in school. What he did have, though, was a drive to create, an ambition he expressed by tagging abandoned buildings throughout Philly. Later, he discovered clay and began merging his Puerto Rican heritage and love of hip-hop culture with this millennia-old medium by creating graffiti-covered classical pots and urns.
