The many faces of Fauxreel

Toronto-based graffiti artist, Fauxreel understands that the city itself is a living, multi-celled organism. Changes occur at a breakneck speed. Built up, torn down, we are all witnesses, whether we like it or not, to a fluctuating lifestyle. This pace of life can desensitize us so that we miss what goes on around us, the little details that make all the differences in our urbanity.

Fauxreel’s latest collection of works, Faces of the city, forces us to stop and take notice of what’s happening. Around the world, from Toronto to Paris, you may stumble upon them, adorning a wall that may have stood empty or covered in torn up posters previously.

Many people already have discovered them, on a daily basis, on the way to work, back home, or taking the dog out for a walk, plastered on the blank canvases building walls present to this artist every day. They work because they stare back at us, jolting us from our slumbering walks.

Fauxreel puts faces on the spaces we ignore, creating a familiarizing feeling with the architecture of a building. It is true that as humans we must put a face on inanimate and abstract things in order to take notice and give it meaning. This is why we see animals in the clouds, objects in tea leaves, and ghosts in the fog, or Jesus on toast.

The signature material of choice for Fauxreel is simply pasted paper that is applied to walls in his own special way. Preferring to choose walls that are more blemished and scarred than pristine, he forces us to look at the current condition of the city and that, sometimes, it is the imperfections that hold true beauty.

To see more images visit: www.fauxreel.ca.

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by Henry Guyer
Gloobbi Art

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