Despite putting up thousands of pieces over the last five decades, Rocky Dobey only recently started considering himself an artist. Get to know him in the first episode of Public Display.
Documentary filmmaker Kate Colenbrander says she had been noticing Dobey's pieces around the city for years before she realized they were all made by one person.
"I may be the one who ultimately has the camera and [is] doing editing, but the whole thing is a conversation," she says. "I can't really have a big ego about it because the story wouldn't exist without Rocky."Dobey has been putting his art up in the streets' of the city ever since he was a shoeshine boy on Yonge St. in the 1970s. He says when he first started, the phrase "street art" didn't even exist.
"It's very different than what people see as street art or public art," she says. "It exists in this kind of space in between what we think of as graffiti and memorial work that the city commissions or governments commission."
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