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..

click to view the dirt floor

 For Full article On Myself and Basil in the mural project