Fel3000ft is a longtime Detroit artists who on Tuesday completed a piece in one of his old canvases, the Dequindre Cut Greenway.
This time he was invited.
"It's quite an honor to be asked to be here," Fel3000ft told Elisha Anderson of the Free Press. "And it's quite an honor for me to do this for the city."
Elaborate graffiti, both legal and illegal, is clearly on the rise in Detroit. Artists were invited this summer to paint walls in Hamtramck, and wild calligraphy has appeared on the walls of many abandoned buildings in the past couple of years.
According to the biography on his web site, Fel3000ft is a Detroit native who fell in with several talented taggers from NYC before entering his teens. He quickly became an apprentice without a master – a young wunderkind enthralled by the colorful and powerful possibilities of urban murals.
In the early 90′s, several graffiti writers found refuge in the Dequindre Cut, back when this was an abandoned rail yard. It was open gallery where various artists spent weeks working on production murals charged with new characters and new forms of calligraphy.
