Alley Jaunt will take over the laneways in the Little Italy neighbourhood this coming weekend (August 12-13). I am a sucker for laneways and find this event to be exciting because I get to see creative art installations at the same time as exploring the spaces of people’s private property. You can download a map that shows you where each garage display is located.
I have also been following the trials and tribulations of Alley Jaunt participant Susan Rowe Harrison through her blog Lunule. She has been working on numerous designs of a fence. She has posted a number of renderings and explained the challenges of making her the final product come out the way she envisions it.
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Alleyjaunt is a great project! It integrates aesthetic inventiveness with community activism and a sense of play, and in that way sets a standard for good citizenship.
Congratulations!!
I was particularly pleased to see attention paid to Swintak’s project in today’s Globe and Mail. (The photo, though striking, doesn’t quite do her justice, but I guess people will discover that she looks even better in person.)
Quicksand as a metaphor is the opposite of what Alleyjaunt represents, which makes it haunting in that context.
All the best,
Vera Frenkel