In a world on fire, Risky Play Collective celebrates artists, creators and do-ers who don’t play it safe.
Their mission is to connect the artists they love, with the causes they care about. The collective includes international street-art sensations, underground graffiti stars and local artists poised to take over the world. The murals of this series, The Wet Paint Initiative, were inspired by the federally funded main street murals created in the Old East Village (OEV) neighbourhood, with the intention to highlight more areas of London and the beauty found off the main street.
ABOUT THE MURAL
Stew Kraft’s Service Centre is located at Hamilton Road and Adelaide Street; on the border between the Old East Village and Hamilton Road neighbourhoods.
Risky Play Collective had been spotting the very unique rooftop peeking over the busy street corner for months and kept thinking that it needed an intuitive mural placement to make it “pop”. Hence, it made an ideal location for the next “The Wet Paint Initiative”; which uses professional mural craft to “breathe life” in a socially responsible way.
Originally, the thought that a woman looking through a pair of binoculars would appear as though the wall was “peering” down Adelaide Street. Yet, while negotiating permission with the owners to paint the piece, The Collective determined that they could get the same effect out of a read-view mirror, while being more on-theme with the auto garage it’s painted on.
If you look closely, the image doesn’t subscribe to reality, as the woman who was painted actually exists on both sides of the mirror.
