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This gay artist draws what he (secretly) hears you say on the streets

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New York City artist Mark Addison Smith respects your privacy, he really does. He just can’t help himself. If he overhears you say something fascinating, he might need to turn your words into art.Every single day since November of 2008, because of a promise Mark made to himself to be diligently committed to this artistic project, Mark has created a drawing from what he has (over)heard.

The result is a gallery of images, titled “You Look Like the Right Type,” that is absolutely stuffed with intrigue.What were these people speaking about, and isn’t the social anthropology of this strange undertaking fascinating?“I was thinking of ways to use hand-rendered typography,” Mark told me, “and about how to capture people’s voices, maybe painting.

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