Is that Al Waxman's statue in Bellevue Park on Augusta Ave. in Toronto? It is creepy. The statue is wider, with a bigger head than normal humans, but shorter. It is disconcerting.
He is known as the King of Kensington, for his role in the show of the same name. He's been gone more than 20 years, and the statue has been there quite a long time.
The picture below comes from Wikipedia. It is a pleasant sort of representation. Not like mine - which is without the greenery of summer and shows how strange his facial expression is.
The park itself was full of teenagers playing on the swings, the smell of cannabis, and one person doing exercises of some sort for a long time. Kensington and Augusta Ave. are near Bathurst and College. I was taking my brother, Brian to the big hospital on Bathurst for the clinic appointment following knee replacement.
Augusta Ave was filled with the smells or low-end restaurants often called Cheap East, and patios were filling up. Tripadvisor says it is the bohemian heart of Canada. "You can find any food on the planet in Kensington Market." Their suggested duration was 2-3 hours. That seems generous to me. I was happy when my brother was finished his appointment at the hospital and we could make our way back to his quiet west-end residence. No graffiti to be found there.
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