Graffiti At Ferry Terminal, Freeport, Long Island, N.S.
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Way out in the country you don’t often see graffiti, and certainly not the artistic variety. So this painted statement near one of Nova Scotia’s most remote ferry terminals (in Freeport, Long Island) stood out for its vivid colors, its possibly enthusiastic statement about its location, and the fact that it took someone more than a little time to complete this.
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On the walls of Toronto some of the street art exhibits strong elements of design, such as these examples. I especially like the piece just above, which is painted on a piece of plywood tacked onto the side of a building.
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I realized after I shot these four images that the faces had similar characteristics and they were all tagged “P.S” and were likely done by the same street artist. Their creator favors funky, angular faces and there’s definitely a certain style going on with these.
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Toronto, being the big city that it is, has more than its share of diverse street or wall art, more commonly called graffiti. This isn’t every one’s cup of tea, but it’s hard to ignore the creative expression that goes into these highly stylized works.
Among the varieties to be found gracing the corner wall of an old building, on either side of the occasional alley way or wherever else you may find these quirky pieces are classic graffiti tags, the enigmatic or humorous character scenes, the images laden with social or political messages, and designs that are as much about vibrant colors as anything else. I took a lot of shots of these recently, so have broken them up with some being posted here and others planned for a later set of shared images.
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Graffiti Sunburst, Kensington Market, Toronto
Crisscrossing the streets of Toronto, it struck me that I had to look harder there than in Montreal to find graffiti or street art. But what’s to be found in Toronto is every bit as varied and creatively expressed, as shown by these two examples, both in the Ossington Avenue area. I’ll post more later.
Jazz Saints
Quebec Month / Installment 11
Not long ago I posted some pics I took of graffiti in Montreal. Painted wall art is another form of creative expression that is different from graffiti, but sometimes in only subtle ways. I’m sure someone has worked out the technical distinction between such things, but however these art forms are categorized, Montreal is a rich showcase for a great deal of both (as well as other street art variants — such as kinetic art, elaborate light shows and light sculptures — that I could not readily capture).
Painted Cargo Container
Quebec Month / Installment 5
Wow! Montreal has a lot of amazingly cool graffiti — and not just the quickly dashed out monochromatic tag variety. In that city, wielders of spray paint have taken the graffiti form to a more vibrant, artistic level that brightens rather than blightens. Here are some of these artfully done works that caught my eye as I recently roamed the city’s streets.
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