Not too far from Cabot square, on st Catherine's street, something rather was bulldozed to make way for new development. The adjacent building's wall still had an imprint of a staircase which was neat, and eerie. The foundation was made of old stone wall, topped with red brick. You don't get to see this stuff often, and soon there will be a gleaming glass building here.
Old wall impressions, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2026
Looking through the fence from another angle, the sun was coming through, casting a shadow on the sidewalk. A pile of bricks remained from the demolition. You see light coming through, I commented awhile ago how all of downtown Montreal is nearly in shadow now due to the dense skyscrapers.
Bricks on sidewalk, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2026
A huge excavator vehicle sat idle, with its scooper resting on a sheet of iron. I painted it in almost an abstract way, so you have to look at the painting a bit to start to see the form. The key to all this was the metal hydraulic cylinder in the upper middle of the painting. It was one of the few objects glimmerings against an earth brown background.
Excavator, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2026
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