Every Toronto reference (we could find) in Uber5000’s new mural
Five years ago, muralist Uber5000 covered two sides of a building along Graffiti Alley with pictures of fish and ocean life. When he returned to paint a third wall this summer, he opted for a different approach: a snapshot of Toronto and all its quirkiest characters. “I came up with all these little Easter eggs and stories that I wanted to throw in,” he says. “It has something of a Where’s Waldo? feel about it.” The artist spent four weekends in the Harhay Construction Management parking lot next door painting. Tap or hover over the red dots below for the stories behind every local reference in the mural.
Roxy Kirshenbaum is a freelance journalist based in Toronto. After graduating from Columbia University’s journalism program, she worked as a copy editor at InStyle magazine in New York and then as an editor at Surface magazine. When she returned to Toronto, she worked at Blue Ant Media and Cottage Life, and she has been a contributing writer and photographer at Toronto Life for many years.
