Toronto Has This Much To Say

Yesterday's Open Gardens Niagara (http://opengardensniagara.blogspot.ca) summer market images are a world away from today's Toronto Queen Street alley pictures.  At times it is overwhelming to walk down graffiti alley.  Everything is covered everywhere.  For me the visual messages are raw rants, defeatists scrawls and desperate assertions of identity.  And then a wall mural will pop out like the fence in front of the car.

I enjoyed the leaning building image.  Looking into the space between the buildings, you can see the convergence at the end.  No getting through to Queen Street between these buildings.  Even so, peoplel squeezed in there to get a world in on the walls. 

The front of the bicycle store has its own visual language.  The arrangement of the bicycles seemed to me to be a blast on Queen Street West.  Maybe it takes a lot to get noticed in a big city with big things going on.  

You can find out more about graffiti alleys in Toronto at this site: 
http://www.seetorontonow.com/my-toronto/torontos-street-art/
https://www.facebook.com/StreetARToronto

Larger Than Life

I found this in the Queen Street West Graffiti Alley in Toronto.  It's well known as the setting for Rick Mercer's 'Rants'.

It all seems so perfect.  It might be that now, a few weeks later, the chair too is a story of images and letters.