Location: Southeast corner of Sherbourne and Gerrard
Date photo taken: 17 October 2015
The theme of the images on the colourful hoarding kitty-corner from Allen Gardens eluded me at first. Painted in bold colours are mice, opossums, bees, ladybugs, birds and other creatures familiar to Toronto, but then thrown into the works are two lemurs. It wasn't until I had walked away that it struck me - pollinators. Not being used to seeing lemurs in the back garden, I didn't make the connection at first but the 20 panel artwork, by Nick Sweetman, is "inspired by all forms of pollinators from bees to bats and of course the wind".
The work is a PATCH Project. Their tagline is Public Art Through Construction Hoarding - Curating the City, One Site at a Time. This particular space will eventually be an Oben Flats development, but the group intends to landscape the empty lot and open the space for community use until construction begins.
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