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Snapshot in time
Emily Hochheimer has created what could be a snapshot of the day the Lister Block opened.
Her six- by two-metre mural depicting its heyday was unveiled in the King William Street parkette Tuesday morning. The Lister building is being renovated by the Labourers' International Union of America and soon will be home to city employees and other tenants.
The mural resembles an old postcard, with a highlighted streetcar rumbling past on James Street North.
That's exactly the feeling the artist, a third-year McMaster arts and communications student, wanted.
The mural is one of the first major pieces to be installed on the King William Art Walk.
The walk will link a trail of visual art stretching from James North to Ferguson Avenue, and is a joint project of Arts Hamilton, the Downtown Hamilton BIA, the International Village BIA and the City of Hamilton.
The idea, says steering committee chair Mauro Brunetti, is to create and maintain through various partnerships a trail that uses as canvases a variety of surfaces — everything from a police station wall to electrical boxes on city streets — to encourage cultural and artistic experiences while contributing to economic renewal through increased tourism and investment.
Art at the central police station, further east from the parkette, will be introduced May 19.
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