{"id":1078,"date":"2008-06-29T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/06\/29\/photo-du-jour-vacant-lot-sculpture-garden\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:40:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:40:24","slug":"photo-du-jour-vacant-lot-sculpture-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/06\/29\/photo-du-jour-vacant-lot-sculpture-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo du jour: Vacant lot sculpture garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christopherdewolf\/2589586106\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3107\/2589586106_928a90d61f.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of my favourite things about the area around the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks in Mile End is that they seethe with life: there&#8217;s always something going on along them, and often enough, it&#8217;s something creative. In a vacant lot at the corner of St. Urbain and Van Horne, the artist Glen Lemesurier has created a sculpture garden, a surreal collection of art made from recycled materials. It&#8217;s a particularly well-located garden, too, located at the end of the CPR bike path at a spot where many people cross over the tracks. <\/p>\n<p>Le Devoir&#8217;s Odile Tremblay wrote a nice feature on Lemesurier&#8217;s sculpture garden last August; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/2007\/08\/16\/153523.html\">read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite things about the area around the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks in Mile End is that they seethe with life: there&#8217;s always something going on along them, and often enough, it&#8217;s something creative. 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