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Hands, Florests, and Minds

Posted: October 8, 2021 in graffiti and street art, locations
Tags: #monicaonthemoon, Boradview Hotel, DOn River, Don Valley, map, maps, Monica on the moon, Monica Wickeler, paste up, Water is Life, wheatpaste, Women Paint Riverside

The crest has been altered to read “Department of Hands, Florests, and Minds”. It comes from an old map that has been used to create a street art installation on the back alley side of the Broadview Hotel at Broadview and Queen Street East. The artist is monicaonthemoon aka Monica Wickeler.

Most of the people were printed on the maps such that the Don River was somewhere on the body. The photos of the people are interesting but so is the history that the maps tell us. The map dates from before the creation of the Port Lands at the mouth of the river. If you look at the body on the right, you can probably find the intersection of Queen Street and King Street just before they cross the river (look for the word ‘Don’). There are no streets south of King Street at the time. Front Street ends at Church. I suspect that all the red dots on the map mean swampy wetlands.

below: This woman stands more to the west. Roncesvalles on one leg and Dufferin on the other.

below: The woman on the right has one foot in Ashbridge’s Bay.

The wall is part of the recent Women Paint Riverside project that was the subject of my last blog post – Water is Life.

Feel Good Lane

Posted: February 27, 2019 in graffiti and street art, locations
Tags: #monicaonthemoon, alley, Andrew Castro, Anya Mielniczek, Bareket, Barry Luksenberg, birds, bkez, Bomi, butterfly, Chris Perez, colour, colours, cruz, deer, desko, Ed Hamer, Elly Dowson, emily may rose, faces, Feel Good Lane, flip, flower, fox, Frannie Potts, garages, lane, Leyland Adams, mska, murals, Odinamaad, Oriah Scott, paint, painting, people, psyblimation, raccoons, Rage Williams, ROAM, spud bomb, street art, streetARToronto, streetcar, Team SPUDBomb, TTC, turningwind, urban, van, zima

I’m still playing catch up as I go through photos that I took back in the fall. Late in October I went west on St. Clair to visit Feel Good Lane. The lane was officially named in 2016 in memory of Barry Lukensberg. He was a rapper, part of the 512 Crew, who was born and raised in the neighbourhood. He went by the name FeelGood. In 2014 he died in a motorcycle accident in Vietnam.

Just prior to my walk down Feel Good Lane, it had been the canvas for more than 30 street artists. This is what I saw that day. … Back before the snow!

below: The title mural, by SPUDBomb

below: by monicaonthemoon

below: by Oriah Scott

below: This is the front of the same garage in the above photo (with the streetcar). Both were painted Elly Dowson

below: Dog mural by @Dr_Roameo

below: Raccoons all over the place! A mural by Emily May Rose and Rage Williams.

below: The blue landscape is a painting by Leyland Adams

below: by Bomi (Bomino San Grantes)

below: by Cruz1

below: Butterfly face and curly hair – Frannie Potts

below: Another Cruz1 creation with a small painting by Bkez (aka Bareket) in the background

below: by Mska

below: A mural for the 512 Crew,

below: In the back, a mural by Odinamaad (turningwind). In the foreground is the work of Desko Zima

below: A face in blue and orange by Anya Mielniczek

below: On the right, a small piece by Andrew Castro

below: A fox head by Ed Hamer

below: Three pieces. Chris Perez mural on the left (blocked by a parked car), in the middle and one of a few swirls painted by Flip

below: The white chair is in front of a jellyfish and heart by Psyblimation

The project was organized by Julian Back and Kim Lesperance with the help of Team SPUDBomb. Financial support was provided by
StreetARToronto (StART). In addition, $5000 was raised from the community to help finance the project.

Paul Estrela Lane

Posted: November 23, 2017 in alleys, graffiti and street art
Tags: #monicaonthemoon, alley, beach, car, cat, cbs crew, chairs, dajenesis, Danforth, faces, head, illustrations by kim, Japanese, kanos, kittzen, lane, laneway, Mediah, murals, octopus, people, soccer, surf, teeth, tokyo, victorful, waves, wings, woman, Woodbine

Have a seat!
It’s another tour of laneway street art.

Today’s blog features Paul Estrela Lane which runs for one block on the northside of the Danforth ending at Woodbine Avenue. Some of the garages and fences have been painted with bright and cheerful murals. There are quite a few paintings considering the fact that the lane is only one block long. Here they are…..

below: A mural by mediah and the CBS crew.

below: Another contribution from the CBS crew but this time in collaboration with kanos, a French artist, from Paris. More of his work can be seen under ikanografik on instagram.

below: A warm summer day by the surf.

below: Toothy grins and googly eyes, coloured monster faces all squished together to completely cover the back of this building. It is the work of monicaonthemoon.

below: Listening to music as her orange and pink hair blows in the wind, by Kim

below: Marine life swimming in the laneway, an octopus with orange eyes looking at you, and what I think is a squid on the left. Painted by kittzen.

below: Wings by monicaonthemoon aka Monica Wickeler

below: The work of dajenesis aka Jeannie Priscila

below: More goofy faces

below: Japanese characters painted by Tokyo. Hint to street artists – if you want to be found, your moniker should be something that doesn’t bring up millions of unrelated hits on a search engine. Any ideas about what he might be saying?