New 45 west Alley Install
“As artists, it is important to recognize the role we play in the
gentrification of marginalized neighbourhoods. While we may not catalyze
the upheaval that gentrification causes, we certainly are complicit in
it, and in some ways we arguably help facilitate that process, right? by
making all the public surfaces look beautiful, we are paving the way
for more pervasive forms of development in the street-level public
sphere- it makes the neighbourhood more attractive to wealthy people who
want to live amongst creative people.
Basil McMahon..
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dirt floor For Full article On Myself and Basil in the mural project