‘The wall needed painting,’ Chicago graffiti artist Joos says is the philosophy behind his ‘beast on the streets’ spray-painting

A Joos painting inside a Sunday school classroom in Chicago. “Very abstract,” no particular meaning behind it, he says. “The objective is to” create a piece “as cool as possible. If someone gets something out of it, that’s cool, too.” (Provided)

With spray paint cans in hand, the Chicago graffiti artist who goes by Joos has plied his illicit trade in furious fashion all around the city.

Inside a darkened teaching hospital where two stainless-steel autopsy tables, replete with drains, sat side by side.