- He is a professional graffiti artist;
- He is the owner of the “Don’t Vandalize, Graffitize” atelier and movement, a small movement that tries to find artistic talents and motivate kids and teenagers to instead of vandalizing abandoned buildings and spaces, to fill them with art.
- First graffitied he was 13, it was a school activity and someone left him alone with a can of spray paint, he got detention from that;
- He has drawn since he was a kid;
- He started doing graffiti because it made him feel like he was actually seen by someone. He wasn’t just roaming around, with his graffiti he was visible, he had where to be;
- Due to her work, he barely ever had any contact with his mother that wasn’t in her work;
- His mother owned a gay bar, and it was there that he realized he was pan;
- His first time was with one of the bar regulars, a male transexual he had the biggest crush on and that always wanted to see what he had managed to tag, they were together for one year, until Rylan suffered an accident;
- Despite his mother’s occupation, she was very supportive of his artistic talent;
- He was the one who took care of his father in order to lighten up his mother’s work load, the man wasn’t sick or anything, just deadbeat drunk and barely ever sober enough to acknowledge his existence, but because he owned half of the business, she couldn’t leave him;
- When he was 20 he was caught tagging an art gallery, and in an attempt to not go to jail, he tripped and crashed through the glass roof of the gallery, he fell from the third floor and got himself impaled and cut by the glass of the roof;
- After that, he was 12 months in a coma. When he came back, he had to do physiotherapy;
- It was after this accident that he stopped doing illegal tagging and decided it was better to get an education in art;
- After this he found a way to do graffiti legally and make it his profession;
- He has a black kitten named Sirius that he found in one of the buildings he was painting;
- He often wears face masks to hide his facial scars. He gained the habit after having gone to Tokyo for a street art event. After seeing people using the masks as fashion statements he decided to pick the habit;
- He hasn’t spoken with his father in 9 years. His father left after the accident, to this day they believe it was because he didn’t want to help pay for Rylan’s treatment. There’s actually a missing person’s report filed for his father, but 9 years and nada;
- Despite being one year behind, Rylan graduated college with a Fine-Arts Bachelors Degree, and a Masters in Satirical and Socio-Political Art;
- He has a small group of teenagers in his group that he teaches street art;
- He’s the mom friend;
- “Roamer” is his art tag, he earned it from the type of art he usually makes.
