Hi Nico, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?

“My parents lived hard lives made beautiful. I was their four-year-old ring bearer when they married at the cabin-sized church down the hill from our home in New Hope, PA, a colonial-era colony of painters that by my time had become the hip yet secluded refuge for the aged-out New York and Philly artists of rambunctious decades-past. So I was born surrounded by these eccentrics and the stoned stories they’d tell as I sat in a diaper on my parents lap while they sat on the curb outside of my fathers Mexican folk art gallery “Milagros”.

The rest of my youth has been faithful to that arc, save for the brief stint when….