Gritty, honest yet hopeful: Finneas’ ‘Optimist’ endears

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It takes risks, it breaks form, and it remains true to what it is — notes on humanity, notes on love, and notes on family.
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It takes risks, it breaks form, and it remains true to what it is — notes on humanity, notes on love, and notes on family.
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Colors erupting onto train cars and empty walls fill in his block letters, boldly pushing the words beyond the two-dimensional surface. This daring image identifies Optimist as the Bay Area-based tagger, painter, writer, graffiti artist. But last Saturday, October 8th, he tamed his after-hours wild style, moving his art indoors,
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