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Because we go gray weather-wise for many months a year, we should pay more attention to providing colour in public spaces. In
@ADRM's photo above, I'm left wondering why Lawren Harris Square couldn't have street furniture colours keyed to the colours he employed in his paintings, given its immediate dull-coloured surroundings, and the fact that Harris was one of Canada's greatest visual artists?
There's this Harris painting in the AGO's collection, 'Houses, Richmond Street', for example, from which the reddy or orangey browns from the door frames and lintels, or the blues and greens from the shutters, could be painted on the benches or applied as wraps around the planters. The yellow at the base of the Harris Square building (most of which is till to be revealed) could already represent the colours of the leaves in this painting.
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Or, why is there no public art piece in that square, again, given whom it's named after? Have an invitational competition among half a dozen artists to create something for the square that could relate to Harris work in some recognizable way. Some future Section 37 money (or equivalent funding) from something in the area should really go towards making something to liven up that space.
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