A couple of years ago a renegade street artist known as Roadsworth was getting in a lot of trouble for his creative additions to the Montreal street scape. A crosswalk became a row of birthday candles, the dotted yellow line in the middle of the street became a zipper, and streetlights sprouted electric plugs. For some reason there was a big fuss about all this, and it's been a while since I've seen any of his "public mischief".
The new batch that appeared recently on rue Ste. Catherine looks somehow sanctioned in a way, slightly more socially concious and slightly less amusing for amusement's sake. One of my favorite is this vegetable garden, with plant markers reading "Trottoir genetiquement modifie" (genetically modified sidewalk). Nearby an alligator crawls out of the sewer, a trio of vultures waits for shoppers to drop, and the an intersection box (as in "don't block the box") becomes a swimming pool.
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