Graffiti Artist Festoons Brooklyn Parking Lot
Artist Steve Powers (formerly ESPO) is working on a “Love Letter” to Brooklyn on the giant, ugly banks of a giant, ugly parking lot for the giant, ugly Fulton Mall.
The decrepit old Macy’s garage on Hoyt Street is getting cheered up with some signature-Powers axioms and “community catchphrases” to the tune of “Born busy as a Brooklyn-bound B,” “I am made to leave, I am made to return…” and go buy some H&M and Shake Shack? Oh, it’s cheery alright. Yet… the way Powers’ blocked words scroll across the structure’s tiers reminds me of Jenny Holtzer’s projections, only those were a little better because they’re abstract and bitter. (Photo: Is this thing on??/flickr)
by Marina Galperina on September 13, 2011 at 11:00 am
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I learned to be a sellout and reduce graffiti to a hackneyed, boring style–in Brooklyn!
super ignorant comment.
ESPO has been crushing shit for longer than you've had pubes.
dude is improving ugly, depressing environments with great writing and perfectly rendered type.
what are you doing with your life?
reduce? you must be too young to have seen the gates he destroyed
Substance > Style anyway.
feel free to get off his dick anytime.
Better than Jenny Holtzer’s projections? Comparing apples and oranges? I'd rather have something that can be seen during the day, not only at night. And Holtzer's phrases seem a bit pompous if you ask me…
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Thanks-a-mundo for the blog post.Really thank you! Great.