{"id":5027,"date":"2009-12-04T18:56:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T23:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=5027"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:59:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:59:43","slug":"pigeon-toes-wet-cement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/12\/04\/pigeon-toes-wet-cement\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigeon Toes + Wet Cement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pigeontracks.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/de-maisonneuve-clsc-street-dsc_02371.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/pigeontracks.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/de-maisonneuve-clsc-street-dsc_02371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"596\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;City pigeons are the product of domestication \u2013 but exist somewhere between tame and wild. Their traces in wet cement remind us that human and non-human animals share the city together. The sidewalk was once a meeting place \u2013 not just a passageway.\u00a0 Pigeons still use it that way.&#8221; &#8211; <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/pigeontracks.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pigeon Tracks blog<\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jennifer Roberts is an Art History grad student who studies the timeless interaction between pigeons and wet cement. She tracks pigeon tracks &#8211; and <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.ca\/Jennifer.Dodier.Roberts\/Footprints#\" target=\"_blank\">dog and cat and squirrel tracks too<\/a> &#8211; all as part of an exploration of how animals use urban space.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/pigeontracks.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/pigemap_cropdrotdclean.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">map <\/a>cataloging those immortalized pigeon prints around Concordia&#8217;s downtown campus and put up exploratory <a href=\"http:\/\/pigeontracks.wordpress.com\/links\/\" target=\"_blank\">posters<\/a> at each site (although most have been removed by city workers). Then, to literally highlight the traces left by pigeons in our urban landscape, she filled their foot prints with green gelatin.<\/p>\n<p>If their tracks are any indication, plenty of pigeons are unruffled by a stroll through wet cement, while others alight for only the briefest of moments (see the solo set of prints beside the sidewalk crack in the photo above). I have seen quite a few mangled pigeon toes around town, but have yet to see any with their feet encased in concrete concrete blocks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/2009\/12\/03\/spacing-release-party-dec-9th\/\" target=\"_blank\">next issue of Spacing magazine<\/a> which will be release on December 9th is all about urban animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;City pigeons are the product of domestication \u2013 but exist somewhere between tame and wild. Their traces in wet cement remind us that human and non-human animals share the city together. The sidewalk was once a meeting place \u2013 not just a passageway.\u00a0 Pigeons still use it that way.&#8221; &#8211; Pigeon Tracks blog Jennifer Roberts<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/12\/04\/pigeon-toes-wet-cement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Pigeon Toes + Wet Cement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7832,7835,103],"tags":[114,82,4663,20,25,4664],"class_list":["post-5027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-green-space","category-walking","tag-animals","tag-concordia","tag-jennifer-roberts","tag-pedestrian","tag-public-art","tag-wet-cement"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pigeon Toes + Wet Cement - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/12\/04\/pigeon-toes-wet-cement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pigeon Toes + Wet Cement - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;City pigeons are the product of domestication \u2013 but exist somewhere between tame and wild. 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