I have really come to enjoy urban wall art. Wall art, not graffiti. Take your lame little tags and go away. Graffiti makes a neighborhood look sadder, wall art is interesting and cheers you up. I saw this on a wall in St. Henri and it made me smile. Hard to do at 9 Am before coffee. It gave me the energy and attitude to walk the 3 KM back home singing " Alright, alright, alright, alright....."
A few weeks ago, Montreal installation artist Peter "Roadsworth" Gibson spent some time with a Verdun youth group working on a mural at a piece of public land destined to become a green space on the corner of Church and Verdun Ave. At over 1'1oo square feet it was the largest project he has done to date.
I had to stand back 30 feet to get a full shot. This is just cropped a bit to get rid of the shrubbery on the bottom. The next two are details of the mural, first the right side, then the left and a shot including the street for scale. That is a three story building and note the recycling cart at bottom right for reference .
