A Love Letter for You

Steve Powers transformed West Philadelphia's Market Street corridor into a sequence of rooftop text murals that reads like a poetic public novel. Instead of one wall, the work unfolds across dozens of buildings, with hand-painted phrases visible from the elevated Market-Frankford Line. The style is graphic, witty, and emotionally direct: sign-painting craft meets graffiti history, neighborhood storytelling, and pop-language romance. Created with Mural Arts Philadelphia, the project tied personal feeling to place, turning transit views into a running meditation on affection, longing, home, and civic pride. It feels unmistakably local—part storefront vernacular, part train-window cinema.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States