I first posted pictures of the pasteups and posters at Charlotte and Adelaide back in September shortly after they first appeared. I walked past them the other day. There are a few that I forgot the first time and a few that are new. Being street art, they have been subject to the sufferance and whims of others – some comments are added, marks are made.
These are the photos that I took recently:
Covering the exterior walls of a small empty building on the corner of Charlotte and Adelaide West is a collection of images. This project, Paste Platz, is the work of Jeremy Lynch. He asked some instagram users (artists, graffiti artists, photographers, etc ) if they wanted to contribute images. He then printed pictures the pictures and created the scene you see below. I haven’t tried to identify which pieces were provided by which artist; instead, I have made a list of the contributors at the bottom of this post along with a link to their instagram pages. If you have been following this blog, you will recognize some of the street art. But a lot of it should be new!
Full disclosure – some of my pictures from my recent “Little Red Trike” series were included. I brought it with me for a little photoshoot.
This site was revisited, and more photos taken, late in November: paste platz revisited
Anne Milne (aka Colouring Book)
and my instagram page too
I was walking along Queen Street West near Shaw St when pieces of paper on the wood construction hoardings around one of the buildings caught my eye. The installation is no longer intact, but the pieces are still compelling. The mural consisted of many faces of black men. Even though some of the faces are peeling away, they still look like they are looking at you (or the camera). Apparently there is another similar mural a bit farther west (by 1050 Queen St. West) but with black and white outlines and highlights instead of red, blue, yellow and green.
It may be cheating a bit, but the next picture is from a screen shot of a photo from the artist’s (lavishbat, #oluseye) instagram account. It shows the whole piece as it was originally.
as I walk Toronto 