Ed Saavedra (photo by Debra Sugerman)Ed Saavedra is talking about the house he rents near the 1906 S. Flores art compound, which includes the smART Space, one9zero6 Gallery, and Fl!ght, which Saavedra runs with his friend Justin Parr. To call this domicile "modest" is wildly inaccurate. Sure, it's a small 1920s wood-frame house, but it spilleth over with playful visual bombast and art-in-progress.

Examples — and this is just the exterior — include the last two-thirds of Charles Bukowski's 1966 poem "The Genius of the Crowd" hand-painted in red on the slats to the right of the front door, and a stacked-up jacked-up pile of plastic signage letters from a now-defunct P-o-c-k-e-t phone franchise — each approximately a foot-and-a-half-tall, a foot wide, 6 inches deep — and not in a stack, mind you, but an intertwined pile.

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