Illustrator and Village resident Jake Tobin Garrett has used his drawings to try to make sense of his rapidly developing neighbourhood
I first noticed just one or two on walks around my neighbourhood, but then they began popping up everywhere, like tufts of grass between sidewalk cracks.
The signs quickly became a place for people to register their anxieties, scrawled in various messages on the notice boards, which became the bathroom stall walls of the street. The city would scrub these away, but their ghostly imprints remained until something new would be written.I started drawing these scenes in April because that is how I make sense of things. The drawings evolved into a continuing series called, which I view as a documentary project more than anything else.
I write these words from the 30th floor of a condominium building in the Village, originally built in the 1970s, where my boyfriend and I live. The Village has been a tower neighbourhood for years. But what feels unique about these new developments is the destruction of existing apartment buildings and the displacement of so many people – a symptom, perhaps, of the way Toronto squeezes development into small areas of the city.
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