Water Birds 2018 by Alex Bacon Lazich, Explore Mount Dennis Public Art, ArtworxTO, 1162 Weston Road, Toronto, ON

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Water Birds
1162 Weston Rd. (South and West facing walls, visible from Eglinton)

This mural was painted in 2018 by lead artist Bacon and features three local bird species, all of which can be spotted in and around the waters of Topham Pond, just west of where you are standing, down the hill in Gladhurst Park. The inspiration for the subject matter came from the owner of the building, Dr. Marvin Cooper of Northwestern Eye Associates, who loves to birdwatch by the water and takes beautiful photographs of the pond.

The birds featured on the South-facing wall are the Great Horned Owl to the left and the Red-Winged Blackbird to the right, while the west-facing wall features a Great Egret. Bacon selected these from studying various species that frequent the pond or the Humber River nearby.

Throughout the mural, the images of the birds are interrupted and fragmented by shards of different colours and spliced with images of flowers. All are rendered with Bacon’s usual realistic precision and vibrant, highly saturated colour palette. He describes his style as a combination of Abstraction, Realism and Expressionism. Speaking as a huge fan of his work this is an exciting evolution of a style he has been exploring in his graffiti pieces over the years where he fragments the letters into flat forms like overlapping stained glass windows. Seeing him do this with an animal, I think this was the first time he did it that way and when I saw the design my mind was blown, but he pulled it off perfectly.

Fun fact about this wall, in addition to Bacon having the assistance of two talented Toronto artists, Christina Mazzulla and Wales, I got to help out on this project. We did the whole thing in spray paint, which is the preferred medium for all four of us. I could only help for a day because of my own schedule, but I’m glad I did because I got to meet Bacon’s 13-year old apprentice Sam who was well into learning the basics of spray painting and ripping through cans of purple with great enthusiasm.

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

Taken on: February 4, 2023

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