Rendered entirely in blue ballpoint ink on a modest sheet of paper, Mi Puta Vida announces itself with an immediacy that belies its small scale. Produced in 2010, before rafa esparza's ascent to international prominence, the work belongs to an early period of raw, unguarded mark-making that collectors increasingly recognize as foundational to understanding the artist's practice. The title, roughly translating to "my fucking life," signals the confessional directness that would come to define esparza's engagement with identity, labor, and the materiality of personal history. Ballpoint ink, a humble and democratic medium, suits this register perfectly, its slow accumulation of line carrying the trace of time and sustained physical attention. Esparza, born and based in Los Angeles, has since built a critically celebrated body of work spanning performance, sculpture, and painting, often incorporating adobe mud made with his father as a meditation on ancestral knowledge and Chicano heritage. This early work on paper offers collectors a more intimate entry point into that larger vision, one in which autobiography is never merely confessional but is instead a site of political and cultural negotiation. Signed by the artist, Mi Puta Vida is a rare opportunity to acquire a work that predates the institutional recognition now surrounding esparza's practice while demonstrating the conceptual and emotional clarity that has always distinguished it. Its availability through the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions benefit auction further situates it within the civic and community-rooted spirit the artist has long championed.