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TORONTO, CANADA 🇨🇦 STREET ART: 🚪 🚪 DOORS

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AUGUST 2023

TORONTO, CANADA STREET ART: PAYPHONES

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I’ve had this idea on my mind for years – to make a book documenting all of the pay phones around the world. They’re fascinating to me how they are relics fading before our eyes. Morphing into art on the street. I had collected pics from places like Kyiv, Vancouver, and Tbilisi…but then got to other cities where they’ve all been removed, so I began to wonder, is this really a thing?

Then, I got to Toronto in July 2023 and, for the first time in a long, long time, I saw phones that still actually work! Intermixed with ones that have already become art.

I guess they’re leaving them out there, and one by one as they slowly get written on, beaten on, used as a food counter, or have its phone violently ripped from its station, then they effortlessly segue into street art and culture.

I’ve decided to post images of payphones in real time as I see them because their practical existence is as temporal as any mural or tag out there.

August 2023

KASHKADARYA REGION, UZBEKISTAN 🇺🇿: TESHIK-TASH

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There is a holy place worshipped by all Uzbek people: Teshik-Tash.
A large holed Stone (Teshik-Tash in Turkic) is surrounded by small white stones.
According to the stories of old, the stone has a healing effect. Mothers bring their children and take them through the hole of the stone. They say that the next day children are cured of their illnesses. Teshik Tash is not only the name of the holy place, but the name of the grotto, well-known for the archaeological excavation of the remains of a Neanderthal child. In 1938, the famous Central Asian archaeologist Michael E. Masson found the burial place in the Teshik-Tash Cave.
During the excavations archaeologists found the skeleton of a Neanderthal boy of 9-10 years. Famous Russian anthropologist Mikhail M. Gerasimov restored the live appearance of the boy from his skull. Today, you can see a sculptural portrait of the boy in Termez museum.
The child was found in a grave surrounded by upright goat horns deliberately placed there, as if to ritualize the burial. The Teshik Tash burial illustrates an early expression of an animistic belief – that is, that nature is essentially personal and filled with spirits which behave like human beings.
Kashkadarya, Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
29june23

TALLINN, ESTONIA 🇪🇪 (ABANDONED) GRAFFITI: FORMER PSYCHIATRIC FACILITY, PALDISKI 52, PART 6

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29april23