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A love letter for you : brick valentines on the Philly skyline / Steve Powers as ESPO ICY.
- Title
- A love letter for you : brick valentines on the Philly skyline / Steve Powers as ESPO ICY.
- Author
- Powers, Stephen, 1968-
- Publication
- [Philadelphia, Pa.] : Free News Projects ; New York : Available through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, c2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | ND237.P821 A4 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 1 v. : col. ill.; 16 x 24 cm.
- Summary
- Graffiti artist Steve Powers started painting his "ESPO" alias across the walls and rooftops of Philadelphia in 1984, just as the city's Anti-Graffiti Network was launched. Twenty-five years later, in the summer of 2009, he returned to Philly, armed with 1,200 cans of spray paint, 800 gallons of bucket paint and 20 of the finest spray-painters in America, to inscribe an epic love letter on the rooftops facing the Market-Frankfurt line, as a public art project. Powers consulted the community in West Philly and collaborated with The Mural Arts Program and the Pew Center, and with their help transformed this 20-block stretch of buildings into visual and architectural Valentine poems, with lines such as: "This love is real so dinner is on me" and "Knocked on your door/ legs tired back sore/ migraine for sure/ no more I swore you smile I'm cured." "A Love Letter for You: Brick Valentines on the Philly Skyline" documents in full color the art and the neighborhood that inspired Powers' work, and is designed as an open Valentine love letter for all to use.
- Subject
- Note
- Murals painted for viewing from the Market-Frankford El along the stretch of track running through West Philadelphia, Pa.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0977652378
- 9780977652372
- OCLC
- 567767869
- SCSB-10354505
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library