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  • Toronto art scene’s radical underground

    When I was a young artist, if someone liked my work I instantly worried. Driven by the notions of the avant-garde, my interest was never...
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  • How long is too long for public art?

    When I completed the Memorial To Commemorate The Chinese Railroad Workers Of Canada, I was admonished by the city’s historical society for not concentrating on...
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  • What it’s really like to be on a Toronto public art jury

    It was a competition for a sculpture in a recessed corner of a condominium building on Yonge, part of the city program that requires developers...
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  • The modernist erasure of graffiti

    The small industrial building I live in was built in the 1890s. It borders on a laneway that's often targeted by graffiti.  Whenever the walls...
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  • Facadism versus public art

    When I was first approached to design a public sculpture for 5 St. Joseph Street, I was informed that, since the city required the developer...
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  • Take on tagging

    The sound of voices and spray-painting below my bedroom window awakens me at 3:30 am. I know instantly, from experience - I live in a...
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