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.