Apr 6, 2010
A Love Letter For You
A Love Letter for You is a project by Stephen Powers a.k.a. ESPO with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.
It’s an ongoing graffiti love letter stretching across 50 building facades over 20 blocks along the Market-Frankfurt subway line in West Philadelphia. Powers first started painting on these rooftops as a teenager in 1984. 25 years later he returned home to Philadelphia in the summer of 2009 to write a love letter across the same rooftops facing the Market-Frankford line.
The letter, meant for one, with meaning for all, encompasses 50 walls on a 20 block stretch of market street. Drawing input, inspiration, and work from the community Powers created a letter to and from west Philly. The project required 1200 cans of spray paint, 800 gallons of bucket paint, and the skilled hands of 20 of the finest spray painters in America, who Powers put into the legendary ICY club.
