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Paul Estrela Lane – then and now

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Have a seat!
It’s another tour of laneway street art.

two chairs sitting in front of a closed garage door, a wooden chair with teal back and legs, a directors type chair with teal fabric, garage door is painted teal. autumn, leaves on the ground in front of the chairs. Today’s blog features Paul Estrela Lane which runs for one block on the northside of the Danforth ending at Woodbine Avenue.   Some of the garages and fences have been painted with bright and cheerful murals.  There are quite a few paintings considering the fact that the lane is only one block long.   I first visited it in 2017 and most of these photos are from that time.  I went back the other day to see if there were any changes….

below: A mural by mediah and the CBS crew.

abstract geometric mural by mediah on a red backgroundbelow: Another contribution from the CBS crew but this time in collaboration with kanos, a French artist, from Paris.  More of his work can be seen under ikanografik on instagram.

red background mural in black and white below: A warm summer day by the surf.

mural of a brown woman with a two piece bathing suit standing on a beach holding onto a surfboard. There are 4 very big waves behind her. Painted over two garage doors.

below: Toothy grins and googly eyes, coloured monster faces all squished together to completely cover the back of this building.   It is the work of monicaonthemoon.

exterior wall in a laneway with mural by monicaonthemoon with many silly stylized faces in bright colours below: Listening to music as her orange and pink hair blows in the wind, by Kim

garage door painted with a mural of woman with light skin skin and orange and pink hair with eyes closed and wearing blue headphones. music notes around her headbelow: Marine life swimming in the laneway, an octopus with orange eyes looking at you, and what I think is a squid on the left.  Painted by kittzen.

two garage doors with murals of marine life, a squid on the left and an octopus on the right.

below: Wings, another mural by Monica Wickeler

large black and white wings with multicolouredbackground - mural on a garage door in a lane

below: The work of dajenesis aka Jeannie Priscila

head of an animal, front view, wide open mouth with large white teeth by dajenesis

below: More goofy faces

fence in a laneway with mural by monicaonthemoon with many silly stylized faces in bright colours

below: Japanese characters painted by Tokyo.   Hint to street artists – if you want to be found, your moniker should be something that doesn’t bring up millions of unrelated hits on a search engine.  Any ideas about what he might be saying?

mural by Tokyo, red background with black and white boys face, and white word bubble with red Japanese characters written inside

Most of the above murals are still there – looking a little faded, or with small shrubs growing up in front of them.   The remaining photos were taken in March 2024.

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below:  A blue eyeless man and his cat with marvelous green eyes – the work of a mystery man, Victorful.  This mural was here in 2017 but the painting to the right was a newer addition to the alley (photo from 2024).

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below: Children eating ice cream.
in a mural, a row of children eating ice cream cones

below: Another newer mural is this 2018 creation by Caitlin Taguibao

mural by Caitlin Taguibao, a woman with neck encased in green and black striped puffy thing, pupating maybe, surrounded by plants with blue leaves

below: This little blue boy is part of a larger mural that is on two sides of a corner of a building.

part of a mural, a boy painted in blues

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a line of garages with graffiti and street art, Paul Estrela Lane in Toronto