Pete Pig

24 Friday Aug 2018

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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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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.

Convergence of shapes

04 Saturday Aug 2018

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A neat piece of street art in the alley between 9A and 10 St. N.W. in Calgary’s Kensington neighbourhood.

Toil

02 Thursday Aug 2018

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Part of mural in Calgary’s Chinatown. I need to take a closer look at the rest of this piece and all the other random Chinatown street art one of these days …

Party bear

31 Tuesday Jul 2018

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Look who’s chillin’ under the Oak Tavern’s upper patio on 10 St. N.W.

Woods in a side lane

29 Sunday Jul 2018

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Some new art has popped up recently on an exterior wall in a very narrow space between two buildings on Kensington Road in Calgary, just west of 10 St. N.W.