"I Love You Bathurst Street Graffiti" January 2003
Emily Scheer, shotgun review
LOLA 15, Spring 2003. reprinted with permission.
photos: Sharon Harris
People in a state of lacking are vulnerable. Often we feel this rawness on public transit,
where the anonymity of urban life only serves to enhance our blues. Yet ride the 511 along Bathurst Street
and you may find your lacking state disperse and the void of vulnerability fill as love comes out of nowhere.
There are four concrete blocks in an empty lot at the intersection of Bathurst and Carr.
Carefully yet simply
written on these blocks with indigo spray paint is one heavy phrase: "I love you." Motivation unknown, the
artist has chosen to let someone, or maybe all of us, know that love is out there. And in case you lose faith
as the scene passes quickly by the streetcar window, the phrase appears again on concrete supports along the
Gardiner Expressway.
Imagine all the artists in your life who could be sending you this message.
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