A Love Letter

If you love hand-done lettering, illustration, or signs … then this post is for you! In cooperation with the Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia, Philadelphia-native Stephen Powers initiated A Love Letter for You, a public art project consisting of a series of 50 rooftop murals from 45th to 63rd streets along the Market Street corridor. Stephen, you are awesome!!! View the completed murals and their information on the murals page of aloveletterforyou.com.

He conceived of the Love Letter project in the spirit of Cornbread, an early graffiti hero. Cornbread, he explains, wrote tags in order to attract the affections of his boyhood crush, a classmate named Cynthia. “He wrote all over the neighborhood. He wrote on every bus. He wrote over her locker,” explains Powers, and it’s a creative expression he stands by today. “Just spray painting ‘I love Mary’ connects with more people than a beautifully articulated ‘wild style’ train.”  Source