The suitman mural is on a railway underpass on Dupont St., just west of Lansdowne Ave. It covers the walls on both sides of the street.
It was first painted and funded with $2000 received from the City of Toronto’s Clean and Beautiful program. But after Rob Ford was elected mayor and began his “clean up” campaign, it was painted over with dull grey paint. Rather silly considering that Joel Richardson was paid by the city to paint it in the first place. Late in October 2011 it was replaced with a similar mural. It took six weeks to repaint, 25 gallons of paint and 100 large cans of spray paint.
Most of the photos taken were taken on 30 November 2013. Some photos are from a two years previous and they are marked as such.
South Side of Dupont St.
The picture on the south side depicts business men lined up to form mathematical equation.
The eastern part of the equation. That’s not a check mark on the right of the photo, it’s part of a long division sign.
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divide then multiply
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Well suited for a close up. (Photo taken Nov 2011)
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To the east of the bridge.
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X and + towards the bridge. (Photo taken November 2011)
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This photo was taken from across the street – looking through the concrete pillars that support the railway bridge.
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Immediately west of the underpass.
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This is one of the photos that was taken two years ago. I have included it for comparison purposes as the man wearing the gas mask is no longer part of the mural. Instead, three sitting women have been added at the bottom of the letter X. The next picture shows this part of the mural as it looks now.
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To the west of the train tracks. Note the absence of the man with the gas mask and the addition of the three women.
North Side of Dupont St.
Photo taken November 2011.
“And do thy duty even if it be humble, rather than another’s even if it be great. To die in one’s duty is LIFE: to live in another’s is death.” [quote from the Bhagavad Gita, a 700 verse scripture that part of the Hindi epic ‘Mahabharata’]
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Looking back under the bridge, following the arrow.
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Photo taken November 2011
“This at least would be the case in a society where things were left to follow their natural course, where there was perfect liberty, and where there was perfect FREE both to choose what occupation we thought proper and to change it as we thought PROPER. THE whole of the advantages and disadvantages of different employments of labour stock, must in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal or continually tending to equality” [quote from “Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith]
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More information on this mural: http://joelrichardson.com/2011/10/
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