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Cattle call

07 Friday Sep 2018

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

This hallway at the Centennial Parkade in downtown Calgary is lined with decorated cow sculptures. (Parkade is Canadian English for parking garage/car park.)

Lapsed pigeon racers

06 Thursday Sep 2018

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

An avian-themed piece of public art painted on electrical equipment just off 10 St. N.W. in Calgary’s Kensington area.

People of the land

04 Tuesday Sep 2018

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

A long-standing mural in downtown Calgary depicts some of the foundations of Alberta’s traditional economy — agriculture and energy.

More hands make light work

02 Sunday Sep 2018

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

I think there really are more hands in this mural, compared to the last time I paid any attention to this. Spotted just of Kensington Rd. N.W. in Calgary.

Create: Magic of the mind

01 Saturday Sep 2018

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Part of a lovely mural at Arts Commons in downtown Calgary.

Sundial of Hope

29 Wednesday Aug 2018

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

From a walk through Calgary’s Riley Park a few weeks, the Sundial of Hope is public art dedicated to missing children.

Self Made Woman

28 Tuesday Aug 2018

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Public art at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary by Paul Slipper, Cameron Small and Amiel Logan.

Making a home

26 Sunday Aug 2018

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

One of many little doors adorning a mural in Calgary’s Kensington neighbourhood.

Pete Pig

24 Friday Aug 2018

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Public art by Gwen Hughes, kept under glass in one of the many corridors making up the Plus 15, Calgary’s above-ground pedestrian walkway network.

Landlocked mermaid

13 Monday Aug 2018

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

A re-imagining of The Little Mermaid statue in downtown Calgary — a gift from the city’s Danish community back in the 1970s. The sculpture stands today in the Telus Convention Centre. The original statue stands on the waterfront in Copenhagen, Denmark.