Thanks to friends and followers who have shared some of your best graffiti shots. I will be posting them over the next few weeks. Today’s photo was taken in the Gatineau area (Ottawa region) by Jari V.
Ottawa has three legal graffiti walls:
George Dunbar Bridge on Bronson Avenue, near Carleton University.
Ottawa Technical High School on Slater Street in Centretown.
A skate park at the Bob MacQuarrie Recreation Complex in Orléans.
These is some of the Graffiti work you can find in Canada's capital city… perhaps you would like to take a Graffiti tour of the city:
There is debate about the difference between graffiti walls and murals, the usefulness of them and the effect they produce. According to a CBC story about Legal Graffiti Walls “Official graffiti walls intended to reduce unwanted graffiti in neighbourhoods have had the opposite effect”.
Toronto’s mayor Rob Ford seems to agree with that report. He has apparently hired Graffiti police just to keep the city under strict rule. What are your thoughts? What should be the approach?
