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embracing peculiarities

Posted: December 10, 2021 in general Toronto
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… and the little quirks

street art mural on the side of a garage that says embrace peculiarities

below: Love on the street…

graffiti, black words written on a painted white wall say I love you still

below: And love in the bedroom.

blue lights in a store window in the shape of letters and words that say I only love my bed and my mama, I'm sorry! also reflections of street scene in the window including TTC streetcar and intersection

below: Doggie portrait in a mountain ash tree

a picture of a dog wearing glasses hanging from a mountain ash tree tree in Trinity Bellwoods park in late autumn so no leaves on the trees, just orange berries, in the background are two people sitting at a picnic table, leaves on the ground,

below: This white squirrel has found a permanent home in Trinity Bellwoods Park with a great view of the CN Tower.

white metal cut out of a squirrel hanging upside down from a branch on a tree in Trinity Bellwoods witn CN tower in the distance, houses on Gore Vale Ave facing the park in the middle distance

below: Stick figures pulling with full force

signs on a restaurant door that say pull with all your force and another sign that says pull harder. also covid signs like masks required and public health posters

exterior wall of a convenience variety store, paintings of soda pop cans with faces, arms and legs, walking,

below: Wanted – customers! No experience necessary…..

sign on sidewalk that says wanted, customers

below: Printed sideways on the wall in an alley is a portion of “Still I Rise”, a poem by Maya Angelou.

words stencilled sideways on a wall beside a garage door in an alley

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

large sign that only says fate on a black door

below: A tight squeeze

very narrow passageway between two red brick buildings with a bench at the end

below: Someone’s middle name is Style

an elderly man with long gray hair wearing a backpack with Minnie Mouse and words that say style is my middle name

below: 188 squashed in the middle

a semi detached house with one side having a peaked roof in the middle but the other side has been renovated with second storey

a man drives a fancy blue motorcycle with a woman passenger on the back

back of a house being renovated with the new door high above the ground, no stairs made yet

words on a fence between two buildings that say goda love. the word white written on the sidewalk in front of the fence along with a white heart

below: More love – Show Love in TO in Kensington

red heart made of a web of metal with white T and O in the top right corner, show love T O

a line of Tims cups on a window ledge inside a store being renovated

an alley near Yonge and Sheppard

Posted: November 5, 2021 in alleys, graffiti and street art
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Just over a year ago, I found two murals in a lane near Yonge and Sheppard, one by Rowell Soller and the other the work of @rowdyradrat aka Ian Gabriel.

below: “Make me smile” is still written here.  Street art by rowdyradrat

street art by rowdyradrat of Japanese woman in fluid kimono, 20 cents, scary pink smiley face

below: Rowell Soller’s painting of a man’s profile is now joined by Spooky Boo, a striped ghost-like figure by Jieun June Kim.

street art by Rowell Soller of black man's face in profile with calligraphy in white and blue as hair. Beside it is pink and yellow striped ghost figure called spooky boo by June Kim

below: Two animal stickers, a cat and a tiger (or is it two tigers?), both by Jieun June Kim.

2 street art sticker slaps on a metal pole. both are images by June Kim. A cat and a tiger

Since then, other street art has appeared in the same alley.

below: another piece by Jieun June Kim

street art mural of a pink and purple striped tiger by June Kim, beside a tree with a blue bird in it (also painted)

below: A little blue bird by KJ Bit (who helped organize the painting of many of the murals back in June of this year).

mural of a blue bird

below: Straight lines on blue, geometric and abstract, painted by Erica James aka Nixo

geometric straight lines abstract mural in blues with black and yellow lines by nixostreetart

below: Construction in the background

an alley behind Yonge street just north of Sheppard, construction of condos, with cranes, in the bacground, murals and street art on the back of some of the buildings

below: A tricolour jaguar, in yellows, blues, and reds, by Nick Sweetman

mural of a realistic looking leopard head and face in yellow, blue and red tones, in a lane

below: A little sparrow with a rusty coloured cap, by luvs

street art mural by luvs of a sparrow with a rusty coloured cap on its head

below: Another luvs painting – the woman on the left – beside a snail and a blue dog with a very long pink tongue by cruz

street art painting of a woman's profile by luvs beside a

small red angry bird painting on a box in a lane

laneway with murals, an orange snake by muisca, blobs by Andre Kan, and a sparrow by luvs

below: A snake among the plants in purples and oranges, by Planta Muisca

mural with an orange snake wrapped around a purple pole as well as orange and purple plants

below: On the right, colourful blobs and splashes in motion painted by Andre Kan

back of buildings in an alley, a mural of coloured blobs on the back one building, a small green tent, a picture of a sparrow on the other building, condos in the background

below: frog and snail

street art mural of a large lumpy green frog and an orange snail

below: …. and last, another frog.  This one was painted by Eugene Lee

car parked by a wall with a painting of an olive green coloured frog jumping from a lily pad