Moisés Cruz Báez

He is the "mastermind" and CEO of Mampostea'o. Moisés is a graphic designer born in Caguas P.R, with a master's degree in Advertising and other cool stuff from prestigious European universities. He began his adventure in the world of advertising working for the San Juan Star newspaper (where Hunter S. Thompson was not given a job), later moving to GFR Media where he was a designer for the newspaper Primera Hora and El Nuevo Día.

For Moisés that was not enough, so he made the decision to do his master's degree in Advertising; this helped him create a vision that would eventually become Mampostea'o. Inspired by the savory taste of our rice with beans, he brought together several people to turn his vision into a reality.

Moses Cruz Báez was born in Caguas Puerto Rico on September 27, 1986. In 2004 he graduated from high school and Manuela Toro Morice is the one where it begins to develop both visual art as graffiti. In August 2008 he finished his Bachelor of Graphic Arts at Atlantic College. And for two years was the coordinator of Project: Structures of Urban Art in the Cultural Development Department of the Autonomous Municipality of Caguas, working in conjunction with the Museo de Arte de Caguas (MUAC). This project calls for graffiti artists and artists to propose designs that are made in triangular structures built in the city for these purposes.

"Even from childhood always caught my attention, it is not until about 16 years I decide to take all my experiences and drawn on a canvas. It was a difficult time and the art is a great means of relief. Since then, painting has become an intrinsic part of me as a human entity. Part of my inspiration are artists such as Francisco Oller, Ramón Frade, Lorenzo Homar, Rafael Trelles and Orlando Vallejo. Graffiti in the case of constant trips to New York because of migration of my family to that place made me know one way nearest the art, watching the trains painted roamed the city. This was a new inspiration, and yes, one more way to let out freely myself. And for that very freedom that I feel so identified with the graffiti, no rules, everyone is "owner" of your space, a space to look for. For me painting is the ultimate expression of what I can do. You paint what you feel, beyond all, the dictates of or may issue a rapidly changing society and sometimes as abstract as this. But at the time a double look at one's own work is the confirmation that I have done my duty. And that justifies everything, until that everything becomes ephemeral, leaving only the feeling of satisfaction and fullness of what has been done. And who better to join these two passions, "the best of both worlds." By: Emma I. Rivers

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