W.E.B. Du Bois’ Words, Rendered in Arabic Calligraphy, on a West Philly Corner
January 3, 2018 | written by Amanda Mott | Images by Eric Sucar, Chip Colson, Steve Weinik & Hazami Sayed
A blank wall as his canvas, Tunisian-French street artist eL Seed spent a week this autumn transforming the corner of Market and Preston streets just north of 40th Street. The result: rhythmic black lines dancing against an abstract background of magenta, pink, yellow, and blue in a script eL Seed calls “calligraffiti,” messages in Arabic written in a calligraphic graffiti-like style.