A Love Letter to the City

Stretched across city walls and along rooftops Stephen Powerss colorful large-scale murals sneak up on you. "Open your eyes / I see the sunrise " "If you were here Id be home " "Forever begins when you say yes." What at first looks like nothing as much as an advertisement suddenly becomes something grander and more mysteriousa hand-painted love letter at billboard size. Combining community activism and public art Powers and his team of sign mechanics collaborate with a neighborhoods residents to create visual jingles sincere and often poignant affirmations and confessions that reflect the collective hopes and dreams of the host community. A Love Letter to the City gathers the artists powerful public art project for the first time including murals on the walls and rooftops of Brooklyn and Syracuse New York; Philadelphia; Dublin and Belfast Ireland; So Paolo Brazil and Johannesburg South Africa.