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The secret Mount Royal artist? July 22.09

Not sure if this is the work of the Secret Mount Royal artist or not.  If it is, it's the first time s(he) has used outside materials.  Usually s(he) just uses objects/junk/trash found on the mountain.  Perhaps it's a New Secret Artist, a painter? 

orange paint around some kind of rod, Laval alley, June 23.09

kid's bike, Old Montreal, May 31.09

I'm sensing a pattern here + it's pretty clever. (The garbage bin + bench were covered with colourful tape in the Plateau, about a month ago.) It's striking + not as evasive as, eg.  spray paint. 

today I think I saw the secret Mount Royal artist, May12.09

tweaking + fussing with a piece.  Not this one.  Another one.  But when he heard me approach he pretended to be Mr. Joe Shmoe, meandering carefreely through the woods.  It felt a bit like catching Santa or the Easter Bunny in the act.  We passed each other.  A friendly, curt, "allo", the best greeting in Quebec I've found because it doesn't offend anglos or francos.  After ten-fifteen feet I thought why not ask him if he is the secret Mont Royal artist.  Then I thought, what if he's a bore?  Or rude?  Or nasty?  Better to just let it be + let his work speak for itself.

looks like art, maxi, atwater market, montreal may 7.09

not sure if this is the secret Mount Royal artist

or some person who planted, perhaps, a little pine tree on Earth Day the other day.  In either case, not the best place to plant a little pine tree.  It's sort of right in the middle of a field.  How long will it last?  Should I dig it up + plant it somewhere else?  Will it last the night? Oh the drama.

the secret Mount Royal artist at it again, April 28, 2009

He, + I'm pretty sure it's a "he" likes to exhibit his work along the more public fareways altho I have seen the occasional piece in a forestier place.  Right now I catalogue his work under "looks like art" but I think that might be a mistake because it's not something that accidentally looks like art like most of my looks like art photographs,to see more of my "looks like art" fotos go here I think the guy is a bona fide artist + these are his forest/earth works.  

Portugese Park, Montreal, April 21, 2009

the secret Mount Royal artist strikes again, April 23, 2009

rocks, Mount Royal, April 7, 2009

red dots

Green Slime, St. Catherine St., Montreal, October 2008

looks like art : Water Plants, Métis-sur-Me, August 2008

looks like art : Fumoir, Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, August 2008

looks like art : Laundry, Montreal, August 2008

Looks like art : White Box, Laval St. Montreal, July 2008

looks like art : Tree Lump, Mont Royal, December 2006

looks like art : Clothespegs, Laval St. Alley, Montreal July 2008

looks like art: White Rectangle, Montreal, July 2008

Looks like art: Henri-Julien Alley, Montreal, July 2008

looks like art: Whitebags, Montreal, May 2008

looks like art: Redarrow, Ottawa, May 2008

looks like art: Stairway to Heaven, Montreal, June 2008

looks like art: Feathertrunk, April, Montreal 2008

Looks like art: Pink Gate, Ottawa, May 2008

Looks like art: Chairs + plenty of them, Montreal, June 2008

looks like art: Green Grate, Ottawa, May 2008

Looks like art: Red Door, Ottawa, May 2008

Looks like art: Underground Parking Lot II, Ottawa, May 2008

Looks like art: Underground Parking Lot, Ottawa, May 2008

looks like art: Branches, May 2008

Looks like art: Red Rectangle, April 2008

Looks like art: Double Tree Trunk, May 2008

Looks like art: Copper Pipe, Pink Thingie, May 2008

Looks like art: Arch Tree

Looks like art: Tree Mound

Looks like art: Square Dealies by Side of Canal

No idea of their purpose, perhaps to prop up or secure sloping land? In any case, quite curious + pleasing to the eye.

Looks like art: Whoever Robbed

Looks like art: Telephone wire

Looks like art: Leave it to Beaver IV

Looks like art: Leave it to Beaver III

Looks like art: Leave it to Beaver