14 February 2017 – “… beating heart!” cries the Tuesday Walking Society, as it takes in the murals at College & Concord.
I know, my Tease promised that my next post would not be from Toronto. But I didn’t know that Phyllis & I would run into a heart-fest, smack on Valentine’s Day, did I?
Now, that’s a heart.
Toronto-based painter & photographer Johnathan Ball — “neo-futuristic abstract expressionist,” to quote the man himself — opens his website with the entire width of this mural. It’s worth the click. (So are the videos you’ll find if you click on that sub-heading.)
Phyllis & I discuss the dramatic heart. We discuss the ravaged face. (I remember a friend describing the day his toddler grandson patted his wrinkled face & said, “Gwampah! Yoah face is aw cwacked!”
We side-step our way to the left, following this mural, backwards perhaps, to its collision point with the neighbouring mural.
Which is by another artist & at first seems entirely oblivious of its wall-mate. No attempt at stylistic or thematic harmony.
Then we see that Katia Engell‘s work flows into Ball’s.
Definitely co-operative, therefore — but definitely heartless.
Do not despair.
Another little side-step to the left, and ..
Happy Valentine’s Day.
The Tease, Revisited
My next post – really! — will not be from Toronto.
morselsandscraps
/ 16 February 2017The best way of celebrating Valentine’s Day! Given your love of murals, I thought you might be interested in these blogs
http://oaklanddailyphoto.blogspot.co.uk/ which features a Monday mural
https://raisamirza.com/2017/02/15/3-days-in-cairo/. (Day 2 shows a mural covering 50+ buildings)
Rio
/ 18 February 2017Happy Valentine’s to you too! Love love lovely.