The Pollinators 2017 by Nick Sweetman, Explore Mount Dennis Public Art, ArtworxTO, 1148 Weston Road, Toronto, ON

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The Pollinators
1148 Weston Rd.

This mural, which wraps the three outside walls of this building and one wall of the neighbouring building to the West, was designed and painted by me, in 2017 with funding from the Mount Dennis BIA. If you are on the corner you should be in front of the entrance to the café Supercoffee. In the top left corner of the mural are some coffee blossoms and leaves and along the whole top of the building is a city skyline at sunset, with the actual windows of the building appearing as the windows of the buildings in the painting. Along the bottom you will see a grassy garden environment with a background in warm colours featuring various native flowers. Each flower, starting with lavender, raspberry and squash at the front, was chosen because it is a plant that we use for food or medicine, and one that we would have a much harder time getting without the help of pollinators.

Pollinators, if you don’t know, are any animals that spread pollen from one flower to another, thus helping that plant reproduce more widely. Pollination by this method is responsible for most of the reproduction of flowering plants, and while lots of animals pollinate, by far the most efficient are bees.

As you walk around to the long wall, the info panel between the windows can tell you which plant and bee species are featured on the wall. On the outside facing Eglinton you can easily see the honey bee on a coffee blossom next to a carpenter bee on a purple stalk of sage. Since I painted this, what was once the back parking lot has become an enclosed patio so to see that half of the mural, travel through Supercoffee to their outside seating area or peek in from outside. Up above the patio on the wall facing west you’ll see more coffee blossoms and the mason bee in flight, while down below you’ll find the bumblebee on some echinacea. On the patio wall facing north you’ll see a green sweat bee in flight and in the foreground a leafcutter bee on some flowering alfalfa.

Toronto is home to an astonishing diversity of bees, with over 360 species of bees in 6 different families - and there are only 7 families of bees on Earth! I wanted this mural to pay respect to the human diversity of the Mount Dennis community through the metaphor of the city’s diverse bee population, while also hopefully drawing a connection between things we love like coffee, berries, and herbs and the pollinators who make those parts of our daily life possible.

Taken in: Canada / Ontario / Mount Dennis (show map)

Taken on: February 4, 2023

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