“Bigfoot’s kind of like my Buddha,” a San Francisco artist said. Not only that, the artist calls himself Bigfoot and has a current solo exhibition in Culver City where the subject of all the paintings is… you guessed it! Bigfoot!

Shana Ting Lipton’s article in the LA Times, Former tagger Bigfoot leaves fingerprint on art world, tells the story of a child who saw Leonard Nimoy’s Bigfoot documentary on TV years ago, and was so inspired by the mysterious monster that he dedicated his life, and his artistic talent, to him.