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Liberty, reimagined

13 Tuesday Mar 2018

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Spotted this while peering into a covered alley on Avenue Atwater in Montreal recently.

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Agri-art

12 Monday Mar 2018

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

This pretty mural adorns the side of a shop in Montreal that sells poultry and game.

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Release the Kraken!

11 Sunday Mar 2018

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

This depiction of the Kraken from Clash of the Titans, at Avenue Duluth and Boulevard Saint-Laurent, is among the more-elaborate works of wall art spotted on my recent trip to Montreal.

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Two towering tributes to Leonard Cohen

27 Tuesday Feb 2018

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal artists have painted two giant portraits of singer Leonard Cohen as tributes, after his death in late 2016. The one above is on a building at boulevard Saint-Laurent Boulevard and rue Roy while the one below is found on rue Crescent below boulevard De Maisonneuve Ouest.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Tree of Life

22 Thursday Feb 2018

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

I can’t tell you how many times I might have walked past the piece of public art called “L’arbre de vie” (Tree of Life) at the Lionel-Groulx métro station in Montreal … but only this week did I notice the faces etched into the tree trunk.

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The power of light: A Montreal mural

18 Sunday Feb 2018

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

This mural at Jeanne-Manse and President-Kennedy streets in Montreal has been around at least since I was a kid. I tripped out at it then … and it still makes me trip out now.

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Social network

17 Saturday Feb 2018

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

An inventive piece of street-art-style marketing spotted in Montreal.

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Guarding the Odeon

13 Tuesday Feb 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Germany, Munich, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel

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Munich, Germany

From my visit to Munich in September 2015.

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Punctuated

12 Monday Feb 2018

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Punctuated

One of several characters part of a public art project embedded in the sidewalk at the Providence Park light rail station in Portland, Oregon. I didn’t notice them until my last visit to the city back in December — assuming they’ve been there for a while.

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Figures at Cologne Cathedral

11 Sunday Feb 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Cologne, Germany, Köln, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Köln, Germany

Some of the sculptures at the cathedral in Cologne, Germany. This snapshot is from September 2015, when I took advantage of train transfer for a brief wander in the city centre.

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