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Look under your feet as you stroll through the city and see the humble sidewalk. We dress them up with spills, spit, blobs of gum, and sometimes paint and words. They hold our DNA; they lead to places we live.
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Sidewalks -
Conversations Gallery
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HANDMADE WOOL AND SILK FELT WITH EMBEDDED CANDY WRAPPERS, LEAF SKELETON AND CIGARETTE BUTT PAPERS
Mounted on orange silk in a frame this looks fabulous!
24"X24"
2011
WITH POEM
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If this was my bus stop...
I would have eaten that Halloween candy bar
And not dropped the wrapper
to be carried by the wind.
Although I found this one
skipping down Kingston Road.
I would dangle my foot
in the bubbly stream
of blue sweet water
cascading off the curb.
The fresh gum would pop up
in 3d holograms
of former bus stop patrons
chatting the time away.
The leaf skeletons would call my name
and ask my destination.
Time would pass quickly
and the smell
would be sweet.
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Sidewalks -
Intersections Gallery
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This is the first of my sidewalk series called Fashion Sidewalk inspired by the corner of Spadina and Richmond in Toronto. Its in the middle of the fashion district where colourful accessories complement the black clothing. The image caputures the transition from fresh coloured gum to old black gum. The tape measure has no numbers. Cigarette butts wait at the bus stop.
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Detail looking down the sidewalk
of black silk masquerading as trodden-on gum.
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Detail of Cigarette butts (really just nice and clean cigarette butt papers).
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My inspiration at the corner of Spadina and Richmond in Toronto. Note the measuring tape on the left and the trodden gum.
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Conversations Gallery
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DO YOU SPEAK SIDEWALK?
ARE WE LOOKING FOR ELECTRICITY AND GAS LINES? I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO IMMORTALIZING THESE CHATS IN FELT |
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Sidewalks
