“Art Feud”, while it seems to not have any connection to my HOPE Outdoor Gallery projects, was actually inspired by them. I took the idea of street art being at its base, a place for rivalry, since it’s considered to be a personal diss to an artist if someone paints over their work. This happens all the time at the gallery since it’s so open to the public, but in every city there’s a code of honor for how street art works. As I said in the beginning of the book, feuds occur because people are competing for something, whether that be territory, fame, or artistic dominance. To show that this is not a contemporary phenomenon, I decided to take five famous art feuds throughout history and design the book to teach about them. I used typefaces that followed the graffiti aesthetic, in keeping with the inspiration of the book, and based the system of the book off of each individual feud.