Deep Ellum is known for many things: late nights, music, drinking, recreational substances, art, culture and a few other unmentionable activities.
For some, these pleasures and vices, depending on who’s watching, are often reserved for a big weekend out, a hedonistic celebration, a show or just a way to blow off steam with the crew. For local artist and business owner Preston Pannek, Deep Ellum was his savior.
“They held me responsible for my actions and they changed me,” Pannek says."They were friends that were actual friends. Without those people in my life I don’t know where I’d be." “Jarrod was big-time in Dallas," Pannek says."At the time, we were the party kings of East Dallas. He came over to see my loft, saw me doing stuff and introduced me to everyone.”
His style is easily recognizable. Pannek's murals often depict cartoons or pop culture figures in neon-bright colors, or Deep Ellum personalities painted with black and white swirling in the lenses of their sunglasses. “I was moving this sculpture and felt this pop and I knew I wasn’t right because I was looking bluish-green," Pannek says. "I go home to take a shower and find a giant lump in a very ‘sensitive area,’ so I decide to go to the doctor."
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