The Writing's On The Wall.

While I'll admit the closest I've come to graffiti is watching an ex boyfriend buy spray paint, and am thus no expert on the genre, I'm very much enjoying the abundance of paint on the walls of various Montreal buildings. It takes roughly 12 minutes to walk from my flat to university, and all the photos in this post were taken in that short stretch of Rue Sainte Catherine between Rue Saint Urbain and Rue Sanguinet. In London, it feels as if the only area street art is welcome/accepted/common is the Brick Lane/Shoreditch area, an area that's a bit self-consciously hip, like. Montreal, on the other hand, has street art everywhere. This is just Part One of my street art odyssey in my new city.




I thought this was cool, just because the building stands in complete isolation of any other buildings, and the art totally covers the side:

Another one on the side of a huge building. How frickin' detailed is that?:

I couldn't get it all in, but if you see this in real life, it's actually the wall of a mosque that they're building at the moment. The dome is there, but it's covered in some kind of paper. I just thought it was neat that the mosque clearly commissioned this, which I guess you wouldn't see in England:

These next few are just down little alleys down the side of shops/in a car park:

 Annnnnnd I liked this one because it's on the side of a Vietnamese restaurant, and I like the fact the owner wanted it there:

I'm going to scope out some more areas of Montreal with lots of art, and hopefully this will be the first of many posts celebrating the city's walls!
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