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Sonya remade and rejuvenated

Posted: August 28, 2017 in graffiti and street art, locations
Tags: abstract, clolurs, faces, fingers, hand, Kensington, men, murals, naked, P.S, peace, peace sign, sleeping, Sonya parkette, women

Close to Kensington market is a small park called Sonya Parkette. Two of the sides of the park are walls. A few years ago the walls were painted with historical murals that were subsequently tagged over. More recently, the park has undergone some renovations including new murals on the walls.

Many of the murals are by P.S (aka Phillip Saunders). If you are familiar with some of the graffiti and street art in the Kensington area, you will recognize the style.

below: This mural, and the one below, are obviously by the same artist who painted the two murals of naked women in Milky Way.

below: A realistic painting of a sleeping man.

below: Peace and an abstract.

The Kensington area has a problem with taggers – many street art pieces get vandalized. Let’s hope that these don’t suffer that fate.

back to Wilson station

Posted: December 7, 2016 in graffiti and street art, locations
Tags: abstract, Allen Expressway, brunosmoky, colours, concrete, face, fingers, hands, patterns, pillars, shalak, sidewalk, smoky, street, subway, TTC, urban, Wilson Ave., Wilson subway station

Back in mid October I blogged about the new murals on the south side Wilson Ave as it passes under the Allen Expressway (where Wilson subway station is).

below: Looking across Wilson Avenue to part of the mural on the south side.

When I was there last, the murals on the north side were not completed. The other day I remembered that I hadn’t seen the finished work, so I took the subway back to Wilson station to see what the pillars on the north side look like. There is more light on the north side as there are entrances to the subway along the sidewalk here. There is also more pedestrian traffic.

This side was also painted by shalak and smoky (as was the south side).

below: In the center by one of the well-lit subway entrances.

below: Looking east along Wilson Avenue.

below: A little street artist with his can of spray paint has been left in a corner.
He’s not easily spotted.

mourning faces

Posted: August 29, 2015 in events, people
Tags: beard, black eyes, blood, bones, boy wonder, brains, bullet holes, costumes, dressed up, eating, fingers, funeral, gore, men, people, pirate, robin, theatre, wake, women, wounds, zombie

Zombie Funeral and Wake

Today there was a zombie funeral and wake, a celebration of the undead afterlife. The funeral was held at the Royal Cinema on College St. West. This ceremony was followed by a procession of the walking dead towards the CNE.