The City of Kingston operates a Paved Paradise art space at this major downtown intersection. While it might be art showing birds or contemporary photography, on a recent downtown walk it featured historic photos mostly from the Queen's University Archives. The provenance of the photos is incomplete - not even the archives fond is listed, and almost all are apparently taken by the famous photographer U.N. Known.
Nonetheless, I do like the photos and I've seen most of them before. Obviously, the reproductions are nice and big! But the CP train leaving the former K&P station across from City Hall is backwards. You'd only realize this if you know the track layout, or if you look closely at the locomotive's number board!
The collection of birds were actually painted by a friend of mine! I like that they are changing up the exhibits. Anything that brightens up a rather drab parking lot is nice to see. Keep up the great posts.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Brian! You'll notice I left some of the cars in my photos of the art installation. But if there's one thing that people don't want to see more of, it's.....more cars! We'll go with the 'Paved Paradise' and perhaps less of the 'Put up a Parking Lot' idea.
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