I Painted My Own Reality
2 Jul 2008It’s late to get this post up but I think this was probably one of the best cultural events that happened in June, so I couldn’t resist letting you all know about it. I’m talking about the Luminato Streetscape’s “Housepaint”. Housepaint was a live painting installation at Parliament Street that happened the weekend of June 13th.
A few years ago there was a group of organized squatters living downtown on free land but they were kicked off of it. The area they lived in was called Tent City and Streetscape decided to re-create the environment of it with “Housepaint” (At the Regent Park Slip). They made ten canvas houses (fake obviously) and got the city’s dopest artists to paint them. The subject of the piece itself was left up to the artist and they were able to be creative and create some of the hottest shit seen this year.
Housepaint included work by various artists of different ethnic backgrounds and that lead to an ace installation. It reflected on the history of Regent Park and repped the future of it as well.
If you went to it you know that on the last night they gave away the smaller works which had been mounted on the surrounding fences. That’s right…FREE ART. There’s nothing better than a free shit. And when it has a deeper meaning, thats the cherry on top.
*special thanks to devon ostrom for the pics
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