With strict shelter-in-place regulations in San Francisco many stores and restaurants had to close, and boarded up windows appeared all over the city. While bleak, they have provided a new canvas for street artists, who have added color and powerful messaging on the new surfaces.
One of the artists taking advantage of the new canvases is San Francisco-based graffiti artist fnnch. fnnch has been challenging feelings around street art for some time with his beautiful and graphic pop art designs. With his current Honeybear project, he wanted to communicate that the medium of street art isn’t the issue: It’s the message that matters.