Walking through the Lower East Side, it is impossible not to notice the yellow stickers inscribed with poetry. Stuck on walls, lampposts, mailboxes and other bits of urban clutter, the slaps read like scraps from a diary. Evocative, intimate, despairing, empowering, mysterious — they invite to feel and to think. My Life in Yellow is the story behind the words.

Global Journey

“Yellow has been my favorite color for as long as I can remember… to me, yellow equates to happiness.” The artist known as Yellow told me, as we sat in the comfort of her chic, tasteful, and graceful living room.

'My Life in Yellow' began as a blog when she first moved to New York, designed to be a bright chronicle of Yellow’s life to stay in touch with friends. She left her home state of Pennsylvania in a low, so she moved to New York with big city dreams. Her style matured into poetry, as she traveled across the world, while life experience helped Yellow evolve as a person.

The trademark yellow sticker has its roots in three relationships: two friends and a lover. As Yellow planned a trip to India, a friend connected her with a Swede who had already been to the subcontinent. This Swede turned out to be Tags and Throws, a graffiti aficionado. He taught her the basics of street art etiquette. After India, Yellow planned a trip to Sweden to visit him, and there, Tags introduced her to All You See is Crime in the City. Yellow and Crime hit it off instantly.

“She’s my angel,” Yellow joked, affectionately. The two became close, and Yellow’s apartment became Crime’s base when she visited New York. In 2016, Crime came by the big city. At the time, Yellow was in romance gone stale. As she put it, “he was a good guy, just not good for me.” Yellow was feeling blue about what to do, wanting to break-up, but afraid to hurt him. Crime offered her a priority mail slip. And so, on this postal-prototype of what would become her yellow calling card, she wrote; “Tell Him How You Feel.”