‘This Mountain Loves You’
is a mountain of positive messages stitched into a quilt-like artwork at the AGO. Fabric squares were decorated with pictures and messages and then hand stitched together. It is the creation of the AGO Youth Council, overseen by artist Ani Castillo.
An example of her work, black and white drawings with a little bit of whimsy and a lot of heart…. ‘Toronto in the Summer’ by Ani Castillo. Found online at Bored Panda.
“I love my black hair and my black loves me”.
“It’s me and it’s you and we’re the universe too”.
Castillo worked with a group of young people (ages 14 to 24) over seven weeks and this was one of the results. I’m not sure how high it was, 4 or 5 metres perhaps?
Part of the AGO description of ‘This Mountain Loves You’ mentions that it is a tribute to, and a recreation of, Salvation Mountain in southern California.
Photo credit: by Kevin Key, found online at Los Angeles Magazine in an interesting article about the site and its creator, Larry Knight who worked on it for 30 years before his death in 2014.
As you can see in the above photo, Salvation Mountain is predominantly about God and Jesus whereas the fabric mountain proclaims a message of secular love, hope, and acceptance. Messages such as “trust in your abilities”, “love ahead!”, and “keep families together”.
Today was the last day that this ‘mountain’ was on display.
as I walk Toronto 
I like the first photo. It really gives a good perspective on how tall this ‘mountain’ was.