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Portrait by Young Jarus

Aerosol spray portrait by Young Jarus outside a dollar store. This larger graffiti mural was created near Bathurst Subway station in downtown Toronto.

Portrait by Young Jarus

 

Now back to some street art.

Another mural by @youngjarus .

I’ve been looking around for this one because I’ve seen it so many times on Instagram. I finally found an account that had it geo-tagged . When I was in the area last week I thought I’d go back and see if I could find it. I’ve been around this area almost every week so, it didn’t make any sense that I didn’t notice it.

Portrait by Young Jarus

As you can see by the photo – a shopkeeper has decided to display their goods for sale right over this mural. I see that they have moved the clothesline down under his beard so that you can actually see his face. It must have been obscured when I walked by this previously. There is no way that I would have not noticed this. There seems to be another clothesline below his eyes.. it must have had stuff on it as well.

Portrait by Young Jarus

This is outside a store called ‘Payless For Everything’ basically, its a dollar store. I don’t think the people that run the place care much about street art. They put a lot of their merchandise down this alley. When I was taking a photo of the mural a guy came out to see what I was doing.. probably, because he wanted to make sure I wasn’t stealing anything. I can assure I would never but I am kinda curious what’s in that white plastic bag on the right.

Wall mural street graffiti in Toronto

Going through the artists Instagram account; this was done in May of 2012 and its an actual portrait of a real man who used to ask for change in the neighbourhood. I didn’t see the guy that’s portrayed but there is a Instagram picture of the real life man posing in front of this very mural.

Googling Emmanuel Jarus I found an interview he did in 2016, says he’s originally from Regina, Saskatchewan. He used to do graffiti on freight trains which led to painting murals. Interesting.

 

Portrait by Young Jarus

 

This wall mural was captured at the Toronto location below: