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This photo is like when you’ve been friends with

This photo is like when you’ve been friends with two fun and cool people from the start but they don’t know each other and you think they should, and when they finally meet and hangout they realize how awesome they both are and they do really cool things together.

Both @walltowallwpg and @pegcitycarcoop launched in West Broadway (this is the first mural that went up!), and it’s been so wonderful to see them each flourish and, more recently, collaborate.

Here’s to creative ideas and supporting the folks who make them happen.
📸: @travis_ross
#westbroadwaybeautiful
#walltowallwpg

Rounding out this year’s newbies: THINGS MY DAD

Rounding out this year’s newbies:

THINGS MY DAD TAUGHT ME
JACKIE DIVES
VANCOUVER, BC

Location: Subway, 100 Sherbrook St (south-facing wall)

In late 2017, my dad died from an accidental drug overdose. For over 20 years he had been living in the same one-bedroom apartment, but after getting evicted he ended up in an single room occupancy and died less than three months later. After his death I visited places around Vancouver that reminded me of him. I got on my bicycle and rode to building the housing co-op where I lived when I was a kid, and to the swimming pool we used to go to. I went to his old apartment and the parking garage there, which was the last place I saw him alive. Along the way I would stop to take photographs of things that resonated with me as I reflected on our relationship, my childhood, and all the things he taught me. Walking slowly through the neighbourhoods I grew up in, I found myself compelled to capture things that look overgrown, neglected, forgotten. But I saw freedom in these things, too - a lack of inhibition that my dad embodied throughout his life.
Because of his substance abuse, our relationship was complex and thus created polarizing memories that can instantly bring a smile to my face or overwhelm me with deep sadness. Losing him to a drug overdose makes me feel like my happy memories are in jeopardy and I have to protect them somehow. Because his death is entrenched in stigma that perpetuates the idea that someone who uses drugs is less worthy of life, and therefore less worthy of remembering, I have to stand up for him and explain that he was more than his drug use. I have to justify his goodness and continually go out on a controversial limb for a drug user, instead of simply mourning the loss of my father. Taking these photographs has been a way for me to reconnect with him and remember him in his complexity instead of just his faults. My dad was unique. A cat-lover, a mechanic, a carpenter, a goof, a friend, a caretaker, an alcoholic, and also a drug user.
📸: @travis_ross
#westbroadwaybeautiful
#walltowallwpg
#walltowallmb

Next up on our virtual mural tour: BEACH CHASE M

Next up on our virtual mural tour:

BEACH
CHASE MARTIN
(he/him)
WINNIPEG, MB

Location: Wannabees Diner, 639 Broadway (East-facing wall)

ARTIST STATEMENT
Beach is a work that explores the concepts of gender identity, gender expression, and sexual identity. An overlapping amalgamation of the figure’s lower bodies forms an impenetrable celebratory surface of scribbles and colourful rhythm.
Cropped figures adopt an ambiguous gender/sex, allowing the viewer to contemplate their relationship with the figures. Stylized speedos, shorts, and bottoms contort and obscure the physical sex of the figures, making this ambiguity possible. Though ambiguity is the central concept of the work, seemingly contradictory, the work attempts to de-emphasize the prominence of gender by resisting the viewer’s natural desire to decipher the work via categorization. This ambiguity consequently interrupts the homoerotic nature of the work. The work thus adopts an ambiguous sexual identity which is entirely contingent on the viewer’s projected experience.
📸: @travis_ross
#westbroadwaybeautiful
#walltowallwpg
#walltowallmb

We’d like to introduce you to the newest members

We’d like to introduce you to the newest members of the neighbourhood! Though it looked different this year, @walltowallwpg still happened and we’ve got three new murals brightening our buildings as a result. First up:

HORANGI
JIEUN JUNE KIM
(she/her)
Toronto, Ontario / Seoul, South Korea

Location: Sherbrook Inn, 685 Westminster Ave (South-facing wall)

Jieun’s paintings are inspired by Korean folk arts. One of her favourite Korean symbols or folklore characters is Horangi, the tiger. Tigers are revered as guardians and divine spirits and symbolize courage and power in Korean folklore and myth. Tiger is in the symbolic role of protector, guarding against the three disasters (fire, flood, and wind) and the three agonies (war, famine, and pestilence). During these challenging times, Jieun feels the tiger to be a perfect source of inspiration.
📸: @travis_ross
#westbroadwaybeautiful
#walltowallwpg
#walltowallmb

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