« Street art is more about interacting with the audience on the street and the people, the masses. Graffiti isn’t so much about connecting with the masses : it’s about connecting with different crews, it’s an internal language, it’s a secret language. Most graffiti tou can’t even read, so it’s really contained within the culture that understands it and does it. Street art is much more open. It’s an open society » - Faile (Lewinsohn, Cedar, Street art – the graffiti revolution, London, 2009, p. 15)

Faile is an artists’ collective with graphic-design roots that has been ‘wheat-pasting’ walls around the world since 1999. The group’s imagery is an ever-expanding catalogue of classic comic-book propaganda and romance-novel-cover schmaltz, all spliced together with fragments of sentimental pop dialogue. They view their work on the streets as a starting point in the development of an image process over which they will ultimately have no control. Much the same as the décollage or torn-poster technique of the French Nouveau Realistes, who were active from the 1960s, Faile welcome decay, other people pasting over their imagery, and the ripping and tearing of their work. 

(Lewinsohn, Cedar, Street art – the graffiti revolution, London 2009, p. 107)