Rusl Loveletters Crew, Frankfurt am Main 2012

To Sketch is to Live

constant Study Of letters

Between '93 to '97 RUSL also wrote names like Mor, Bam, Cres, Phye & Dmon. After he realized that "Dmon" was already taken by a famous and active trainwriter in Munih, he decited to stop to write it.

After a vacation stay at the US-Military air base located in the İncirlik quarter of the city of Adana, Turkey, he heard someone calling to am man named "Russell". Couple hours laters "RUSEL" was born. One weeks later, however, it should be called just RUSL.

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Each letter makes for me a double statement. Firstly, in its individual meaning amongst its twenty-five siblings, secondly as an expression of that indivduality […]

Excerpt from Sigi von Koeding alias DARE who wrote his thoughts on the "Dare on canvas" publication.

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[…] Anyway I always like to take all the colors away and say how would that piece look without the colors and just in black and white. Would I still say it was fresh or had funky style to it? Maybe yes and maybe no, but these are the things to me that make style no, but these are the things to me that make style not 500 arrows or 99 colors or designs or graphics. […]

Excerpt from the "StyleMessage" statement by New York's style-warrior DERO, who wrote his thoughts on that subject in the 8th edition of Berlin's "Backjumps Magazine".

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[…] What do letters do mean to me? Well, this ain't a question that can be answered easily, because each single letter you create is at least for the creator obvious. But somebody who is not involved can sometimes hardly understand, what a letter look just like it does. Nevertheless you should always try to get the language and expression and if you want to you can if criticize can't be done easily, therefore there are too many components crushing together. A piece as a whole could look like a real burner but when you take every single letter and inspect just one letter individually they still might look bad and explaining phenomenons like this unequivocally ain't always possible.

Excerpt from "Some words by Toast", which was published in the collectors issue number 001 of Berlin's "Backjumps Magazine" in 2000.

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