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One Year of Street Art Dedicated to Mayor Ford
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- <strong>Discovered on:</strong> March 22<br /> <br /> <strong>Location:</strong> various pillars and posts along College<br /> <br /> <strong>Field notes:</strong> a play on the Obama "Hope" poster—the Ford "Nope" poster. Specifically, Rob Ford reimagined wearing <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benito_Mussolini_in_Yugoslavia_crop.JPG">Benito Mussolini's hat</a>.<br /> <br /> <strong>Photo by:</strong> <a href="http://thestreetzine.blogspot.com/2011/03/on-street-toronto_23.html">Eric Parker</a>.
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- <strong>Discovered on:</strong> April 13<br /> <br /> <strong>Location:</strong> Graffiti Alley, near Queen and Spadina<br /> <br /> <strong>Field notes:</strong> In the wake of Rob Ford's increasing efforts <a href="http://torontoist.com/2011/04/rob_fords_graffiti_photo-op.php">to squelch graffiti</a> in Toronto, one response from an OCAD student with a sense of humour.<br /> <br /> <strong>Photo by: the artist, Eryn Hill</strong>
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- <strong>Discovered on:</strong> May 6<br /> <br /> <strong>Location:</strong> Kensington Market and Queen Street West<br /> <br /> <strong>Field notes:</strong> With Stephen Harper and Rob Ford seemingly reigning supreme, it's easy to imagine a Toronto without adequate funding for, among other things, art, public transit, and safe streets for cycling. This 'Fordzilla' series, which depicts a "cartoon glutinous Rob Ford eating things he would like to remove from the city," also serves as a reminder that, no matter what happens, we will always have paint, walls, and voices. Here is <a href="http://vimeo.com/23122248">a delightful video</a> of the artist, Justin Pape, in action.<br /> <br /> <strong>Photo by:</strong> Scott Snider (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sniderscion/5678159312/">left</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sniderscion/5678159162/">right</a>)
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- Another in the series.<br /> <br /> <strong>Photo by:</strong> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ardenstreet/5686357876/">Connie Tsang</a>
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- <strong>Discovered on:</strong> June 3<br /> <br /> <strong>Location:</strong> Near Queen and Spadina<br /> <br /> <strong>Field notes:</strong> DMC's admiration for our mayor could not have been contained in a simple portrait, but instead, Mayor Ford is portrayed as a self-breeding, ever-growing, ooze of an entity ready to engulf our city. Frankly, we're not totally enamoured with Ford caricatures that focus on the mayor's weight as his most mockery-worthy feature. It doesn't seem that ignoring Toronto street artists' affinity for this girth-based levity is making it go away though.<br /> <br /> <strong>Photo by:</strong> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgie_grrl/5780366849/">Georgette P</a>
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- <strong>Discovered on:</strong> June 21<br /> <br /> <strong>Location:</strong> An alley near St. Clair and Earlscourt Avenues<br /> <br /> <strong>Field notes:</strong> <a href="http://torontoist.com/2011/04/rob_fords_graffiti_photo-op.php">Back in April</a>, Rob Ford held a photo op in this very spot. Bristling with indignation at the sorry state of our walls and determined to clamp down on vandalism once and for all, our mayor wielded a power washer to <strike>devastating</strike> minimal effect, a small but symbolic gesture in his ongoing fight against graffiti. Unfortunately, it seems Ford doesn't grasp the psychology of graffiti especially well; immediately upon his return from the neighbourhood, everyone was taking bets on how soon some Ford-themed graffiti would appear on this wall. Answer: we can't say exactly, but it was no more than a matter of weeks. <br /> <br /> <strong>Photo by:</strong> Nick Kozak/Torontoist
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- <strong>Discovered on:</strong> July 20<br /> <br /> <strong>Location:</strong> undisclosed<br /> <br /> <strong>Field notes:</strong> As the pantheon of street art dedicated to Rob Ford grew in both scope and quality, many artists began tackling not just his mayoralty in general, but his attitudes towards graffiti and art in particular. First there were the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedanield/5634921256/">"Rob Ford is an Art Terrorist" stencils</a> that popped up around town, then <a href="http://torontoist.com/2011/04/spotted_rob_ford_graffiti_dare.php">the come-get-us dare</a>, and then the above, from the Toronto Art Crimes unit. A rocky time for law enforcement indeed.<br /> <br /> <strong>Photo by:</strong> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinreis/5963446925/in/photostream#/photos/martinreis/5963446925/in/[email protected]/">Martin Reis</a>
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- <strong>Discovered on:</strong> August 11<br /> <br /> <strong>Location:</strong> Near Queen and Spadina<br /> <br /> <strong>Field notes:</strong> Deadboy's stencil of Rob Ford has popped up on and off for months, in locations across the city. Ford, it seems, takes his middle finger with him wherever he goes.<br /> <br /> <strong>Photo by:</strong> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ashtonpal/6031531464/">AshtonPal</a>
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- <strong>Discovered on:</strong> August 17<br /> <br /> <strong>Location:</strong> Near Queen Street and Palmerston Avenue<br /> <br /> <strong>Field notes:</strong> There's an ongoing debate about whether the 'dee to Rob's 'dum here is brother Doug or predecessor Mel Lastman. In either case, it's always good to have a friend to count on, we guess.<br /> <br /> <strong>Photo by:</strong> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamschoales/6052525731/">Adam Schoales</a>
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- <strong>Discovered on:</strong> September 7<br /> <br /> <strong>Location:</strong> Graffiti Alley, near Queen and Spadina<br /> <br /> <strong>Field notes:</strong> Another stencil we see fairly often, this one shows a much rarer, happier mayor—albeit one whose happiness may stem from the nice bubble cushioning him from the outside world.<br /> <br /> <strong>Photo by:</strong> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/subjective_art/6208909518/">Subjective Art</a>
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- <strong>Discovered on:</strong> September 8<br /> <br /> <strong>Location:</strong> west side of Roncesvalles Avenue, south of Marmaduke Street<br /> <br /> <strong>Field notes:</strong> When the renovation/construction company put up their sticker to attract customers, they probably weren't looking for a Ferris wheel contract. But if Doug Ford's <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/doug-fords-vision-for-the-port-lands-includes-giant-ferris-wheel/article2147987/" target="_blank">Port Lands plans</a> go ahead, he and his brother could give them that opportunity after all.<br /> <br /> <strong>Photo by:</strong> Melissa Goldstein
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One year ago today, Torontonians selected Robert Bruce Ford to be our mayor. It has been, by most counts, a fairly tumultuous term of office so far. With that tumult comes commentary—in speeches, op/eds, radio call-in shows, and in some cases, spray cans, wheatpaste, and stencils. And so, an anniversary card of sorts for our mayor: a gallery of the street art he’s inspired.