m
de feo
Picasso said every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction
| Although I love text, I've never been interested in tagging. The work I do is created inside my studio and then brought outside to the street. I use images because they can speak to everyone, images are universal. What better way to communicate to people from around the world? Lately, I've been focusing on pure abstractions. |
| Street Art's short life span is what's so appealing to me. We all put our work up with an understanding that its destruction is eminent. |
I earned my graphic design degree (School of Visual Arts, NY) with a portfolio made up entirely of Street Art and a few paintings. I never followed assignment directions and barely created any thing that would resemble a commercial graphic piece. |
| The flower has come to symbolize so much of who I am and what I do... I knew this from the start, however, after ten years, it now sits right in front of me. |
Alphabet City
original
paintings on paper, posted and photographed
on the streets of Manhattan,
by Michael De Feo
Foreword
by The Wooster Collective
Published by Gingko Press, 2005