The Mural Arts Program has been working for weeks with the artist Stephen Powers, a West Philadelphia native, and many local painters to create a series of more than 30 huge, text-based murals, collectively called “Love Letter,” along a sometimes blighted stretch of Market Street.
As a teenager, Mr. Powers, was a prolific and notorious graffiti writer known as Espo. Now, as an established gallery artist living in New York, he has returned to Philadelphia to mount an ambitious urban beautification project, one whose odd, affectionate messages - like ‘“Forever Starts When You Say Yes” and “Pre-pay is on/Let’s talk/Till my minutes are gone” - are about love and reconciliation.
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Posted by Dirty Dozen Crew on August 28, 2009 at 11:39 AM
