Founded on fieldwork.
Jhonattan founded Anemos after more than a decade spent painting large-scale public murals across the United States. He runs Art of Anón with his wife Samantha Arango, a public mural practice that has produced more than forty commissioned works. This is where the fieldwork that built Anemos happened.
A Hospital Corpsman in the U.S. Navy before civilian life, he later earned a degree in graphic design and focused on studio arts. The format led him to muralism, which deepened further through community painting. His work has been commissioned by municipalities, public art programs, and private clients. He has served as a grant panelist for the Houston Arts Alliance. In 2024, The Offering, a 50'×12' mural sculpture, entered the City of Dallas Permanent Public Art Collection under a projected twenty-year lifespan.
Jhonattan cares about public art because it softens the edges of daily life in the concrete jungle. As a meticulous person, he wanted the work to last longer than the five-year lifespan most commissions were built around, so he pushed toward ten. That led him through a long exploration of primers, paints, and topcoats, and eventually to the piece of the puzzle that makes a mural cyclical rather than temporary.
Then came a conversation with a Public Art Program Manager whose city had commissioned over three hundred murals and no longer had a way to maintain them. Some were fading, some were tagged, and some were simply old. Recommissioning was expensive, and tracking every artist for a repaint wasn't realistic. The city was spending real money on work that wasn't built to last, and the program was starting to pull back.
That conversation made the problem undeniable. Anemos followed from it.