Just a collection of walls that caught my interest as I walked in the past few weeks.
diamond blues
patches, cracks, and drips under a bridge
vibrant orange with drain pipe
Pattern of arches at George and Adelaide
black and white under grey
wood on brick, browns and greys
The Milky Way from Dufferin to Elm Grove.
Once upon a time this alley led to a dairy. Story has it that milk was often spilt along the way.
At the west end of the Milky Way is a mural of two horses (one shown here), a wagon wheel, and an overturned milk can.
There is also quite a bit of graffiti in the alley.
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I am beginning to wonder how many bridges there are in Toronto! Yesterday I walked under three that I hadn’t been under before. These are the photos from one of those bridges – Bathurst Street over Cedarvale Park, just north of St. Clair Ave.
chillin’ & smokin’
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pink!
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a happy flower growing on the concrete
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tags around the down spout
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Look Mom!
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an assortment of tags at the end of the bridge
In case you are curious, here is a list of bridges in Toronto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_Toronto
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From a vantage point over Nathan Phillips Square, we looked down on the people as they passed by. It was late in the afternoon so the shadows were long. Although we were looking for interesting characters, we were also creating compositions with people, concrete lines, and shadows as elements.
hunting shadows
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caught some!
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on the diagonal
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walking over the shadow arches
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with matching little black dresses
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Some shadows kept still so they were easier to capture.
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a multitude of lines and their linear shadows
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Not all involved shadows. Sometimes, just people in the shadow.
Resting by the fountain.
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walking between the lines
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I ventured north today, north of the 401….. to Havenbrook Park which is just far enough north to access the bridge under the 401 just east of Leslie Street. I went there because I had heard that some interesting graffiti could be found under the bridge. As you can see, someone beat me to it. It’s all gone, all cleaned up.
There is a small, and boring, amount of graffiti across the river and up the hill. If I also wanted to climb the fence, I could access a bit more graffiti. My cane was handy for managing the incline down to the river but that was the limit of my adventuring for today.
Having said that, there was this one piece of graffiti:
The graffiti had been cleaned up and so had the surroundings. It was probably the cleanest of the bridges that I have been under in Toronto. I saw rocks, dirt, water, paw prints and not much else.
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Fourth Annual Art Spin Exhibition,
Tower Automotive Building, 158 Sterling Rd.,
Aug 29 – Sept 1, 2013
18 artists, one old vacant heritage industrial building.
Interesting lighting. Interesting use of the space. Interesting relationships between the installations and their surroundings.
I have not included photos of all the art in the exhibit. My apologies to the artists whose work I haven’t shown.
looking at ‘Sound the Alarm’ by Caroline Larsen’ with the video installation ‘I,I,I,I’ in the foreground
‘We Are Happy’ by Michael Toke. Like a visit to the dentist’s office.
The painting on the wall to the left is ‘Exit Enter’ by Celia Neubauer.
‘Sterling Caer Observer’ by Noel Middleton
‘Untitled’ by Jinny Yu. Three shaped pieces of metal by brick wall.
artist: Mary Grisey
‘Floating in the Eye of the Storm’ by Lois Schklar.
wire sculpture
‘Stillnessence Vivarium’ by John Oswald.
This installation lent itself to a many interpretations.
more information about Art Spin http://www.artspin.ca
The video installation ‘Melting Bricks’ was in small room where it was shown fairly high up on the wall. It was the only source of light in the room. I focused on the relationship between the room and the light when I was taking pictures of it. (my apologies to the artist as I seem to have forgotten his/her name).
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as I walk Toronto 