Location: Queen St. W. at St. Patrick
Date photo taken: 1 April 2015
Image #3 in the Traffic Signal Box Series
This jazz loving raccoon sits outside longtime live music venue The Rex. Not so long ago, this space hosted a smiling fuschia grizzly bear which artist Jeff Blackburn painted as part of the Outside the Box project back in 2013. Based on the number of images posted online of the box, the bear was incredibly popular. This might explain why, when the city totally upgraded the box with new equipment and a new shell, they asked Blackburn to create something new. He chose to channel the spirit of Miles Davis in a very Toronto way. Love it.
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