The Gorilla Board of Directors — SMOKEEX wall, Waco, Texas
A stop on the Waco's Walls trail

36The Gorilla Board of Directors

SMOKEEX wall — Skcoobaveli Trevino, 2021, 3533 Bosque BlvdMURAL

Two gorillas — one glowering, one grinning with a pipe — painted by Waco's busiest one-man art movement.

An old wood-sided house on Bosque Boulevard, wrapped entirely in gorillas: one glowering with lit white eyes, one grinning around a pipe, pink and purple smoke curling between them like weather. This is the work of Skcoobaveli Trevino — muralist, tattooer, graffiti writer and working stand-up comedian, profiled around town as “the Skcumbag with the paint mag,” a name he chose specifically so you'd have to get past it to meet him. Don't judge a book by its cover: the man once spray-painted a memorial portrait that brought a community vigil to tears, the city featured him in its own artist video series, and his tag is hiding on commissioned walls all over Waco.

Here he took a smoke shop's gorilla logo and let it go feral across a whole building — brand mascot as king-size character study. It's loud, it's uncredited on any official map, and it's exactly the kind of homegrown wall this trail exists to point at.

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