Dear Sophie -
While BASQUIAT was tagging SAMO around the city, KEITH HARING was making delightful chalk drawings on black billboards in the subway on unsold advertising space.
They were so simple and iconic, like uncovering a universal language that we all understood. I saw people tear them off and take them home, but I felt that they belonged to all of us.
In 1986 Haring opened the POP SHOP and produced wares which continues today. Was he selling out or making his work widely accessible? Keith Haring
Tragically he was caught in the ravaging snare of the AIDS epidemic which overwhelmed New York in the 1980's and we lost our treasured boy.
With love,
Mom