VINE PEOPLE

 Vine People are ambassadors for green action: focusing attention where needed.
Information and Installations in Toronto

2007 projects in the Bloor | Lansdowne | Dupont area
TTC Lands on Lansdowne
Vine People watch over toxic brown fields being readied for redevelopment. They call for a mandate of better planning and green architecture
unlike neighbouring, gated-community developments that have been recently constructed.

St Clarens Avenue Garbage still life with restless Vine People

St Clarens Avenue Garbage still life with restless Vine People  
1011 Lansdowne
The Vine People reshape as wreaths and are placed where a young woman, named Precious, jumped from the seventh floor widow of 1011 Lansdowne during a police raid. Noted as one of the ten worst buildings in Toronto, 1011 Lansdowne continues to place more calls for help to the police, the fire department and City Hall than all other building in the ward.
Bloor and Lansdowne
A Vine People bill-board marks the corner of Lansdowne and Bloor, where, in one month, 94 drug dealers were charged with selling crack. The dealers had past convictions totaling 1467 charges from previously selling drugs in the same area.
Lappin Avenue
The Vine People act as reminders of what is missing on streets with few trees.		 Vine People Snow Poster
This Vine People image has not been printed in Poison Ivy and has not been sent to heads of negligent government and industry throughout North America. 

Vine People are ambassadors for green action: focusing attention where needed.

Sites 2007

Bloor and Lansdowne
Vine People mark the corner of Lansdowne and Bloor, where, in one month, 94 drug dealers were charged with selling crack.
The dealers had past convictions totaling 1467 charges from previously selling drugs in the same area.

TTC Lands on Lansdowne
Vine People watch over toxic brown fields being readied for redevelopment.
They call for a mandate of better planning and green architecture unlike neighbouring, gated-community developments that have been recently constructed.

1011 Lansdowne
The Vine People reshape as wreaths and are placed where a young woman, named Precious, jumped from the seventh floor widow of 1011 Lansdowne during a police raid. Noted as one of the ten
worst buildings in Toronto, 1011 Lansdowne continues to place more calls for help to the police, the fire department and City Hall than all other building in the ward.

Lappin Avenue
The Vine People act as reminders of what is missing on treeless streets.

Vine People Poster
This Vine People card has not been printed in Poison Ivy and has not been sent to heads of negligent government and industry throughout North America. 

St Clarens Avenue
Garbage still life with restless Vine People

Vine People are a Dyan Marie Project. Vine People mark sites of concerns, in public spaces, that need attention. Vine people are based on indigenous trees, plants and four species of vines:
Bittersweet, Virginia Creeper, Virgin's Bower and Poison Ivy, found on walks in the local neighbourhood.

Appreciation to:
David Aitken, Richard Rhodes, Stephen Marie-Rhodes, Matthew Marie-Rhodes, DIG IN, CONC and the Dupont | Lansdowne | Bloor community.

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