Artistic Concept [4 pages maximum]: design proposals [images, descriptions, precedents, colour schemes, and/or themes] for each of the two electrical boxes and/or brick wall.

Artwork Goals: opportunity (1) [electrical boxes] – create one design proposal that is vibrant, relevant, and cohesive across both electrical boxes

Box 1: front, sides, top and back.
Description: An assortment of playful and happy animals, both native and exotic.
Mother iguana with its baby.
A family of angelfish swimming with kelp in the background.
Frogs jumping onto water lilies.

Box 2: front, side, top and back.
Description: lizards and turtles on a background of leafy plants.
Family of angelfish.

A pair of goldfish swimming in a pond.
Shrimp climbing aquatic plants.
Mother snake with her young.

Theme: green elements, lush nature elements, plants and animals. Biodiversity.

List of animals to be depicted:
Angelfish (Altum scalare)
Frogs (wood frogs, Lithobates sylvatica)
Turtles, native species
Lizard, five-lined skink (Plestiodon fasciatus)
Iguana
Shrimp
Gold Fish
Blue Gularis fish
Snake
Colour scheme: many shades of green, with vibrant accents of orange, blue and purple. Green shades of plants, and green animals. Blue shades of clear blue ponds, rivers, and bodies of water.

Precedent:
People asked for green elements, and more plants, as well as more colour. Also we want to reflect the history of St Clair before it was all buildings, it once was home to native animals such as frogs, turtles, snakes, and to native plants as well. Given the mixed culture of St Clair, we want to reflect that diversity in our choice of animals as the subject.

Increasing awareness of global biodiversity and to honour those Canadians who helped preserve biodiversity all over the world.

CV
2015-Present: Killies and Lilies store, Owner

Developed my artworks into finished products. Digitized works for print onto shirts, dresses, canvas prints and accessories using photography and scanners. Total number of designs produced for apparel and print order is over 500, with sales reaching around the world.

Duties involve digital restoration of over 200 vintage and antique digitized photos, posters of art going back to the 1800's to present day. Over 100 historical places and flower seed posters, a collection of Japanese prints from 1800s. Digital retouching includes removing watermarks, stains, evidence of age, yellowing paper, missing/ripped areas, anti-aliasing, and balancing colour temperature.

2015-Present: Member of the VRx Toronto Artists Cooperative
Produced 43 pieces of art in collaboration with the cooperative, including acrylic paintings and digital artworks. Created artwork for the MBZ Veterans Car Club, and developed these works into products. Collaborated on an Andy Warhol inspired series by applying several experimental effects to an existing icon, resulting in a colourful Pop Art effect.

2021- Present: Visual Arts
Produced 64 paintings, using acrylic, gouache, and watercolour. Produced a small outdoor mural (2022) and painted window (2022) as part of a public art series.

2022 Private Art Gallery/ Cafe
Displayed my works in a public setting for 4 months at Feed it Forward cafe.

2015 - 2017 OCADU Digital Futures Program specializing in art and code.

Created digital art in Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, animated my original drawings and digital drawings.

Used Rapid Prototyping methods such as 3D printing, laser cutting, with my own designs created in Maya AutoCAD, and Rhino modelling software.

Wrote code to create interactive art: an animated bird flying which it's position could be changed by waving your hand in front of the sensors. Created circuits with multiple sensors, switches, buttons, LEDs, batteries and single board computers.

Executive Summary [1 page maximum]: provide a brief description of your proposition in relation to the context [Yonge + St. Clair neighbourhood] demonstrating how your vision aligns with our philosophy and theme. Theme: Opportunity (1) [electrical boxes] “Depict nature in reference to geographical, historical, & cultural context”; Opportunity (2) [brick wall] “Display the cul
This theme is designed to show the geographical elements of local nature such as frogs and their life cycle, and water lilies. Water is featured prominently, due to St Clair being so close to the Humber River. So I felt an aquatic presence would be refreshing and relevant.
Each animal represents a culture that makes St Clair a diverse and welcoming place.
Native frogs, snakes and lizards represent Toronto wildlife and their use by indigenous people who historically used them in many ways, including food and medicine and in turn, stewards of the land.

It is also meant to welcome the many diverse people in our neighborhood, with such familiar sights as Angelfish, which are from Brazil, and other parts of South America. These strikingly beautiful fish are popular in the aquarium hobby, and difficult to breed. The efforts of species preservation by Canadians are acknowledged through this depiction of angelfish.
A little known yet important fact about Toronto is that this is the place they were first bred successfully, an essential part of species preservation.
Toronto resident, Jim Robinson, developed a method that replicated their natural habitat with such accuracy that they spawned and made baby angelfish. ensuring the possibilty of sustaining the species forever is valuable due to so much habitat loss contributing to the decline of many fish species some which have gone extinct due to habitat loss.

Shrimp and goldfish are universal. Many people are familiar with goldfish as a pet, which are closely related to Koi and just as beloved.

The Blue Gularis fish represents an African and Ethiopian influence on St Clair coffee shops, (Africa being the birthplace of coffee). This colourful yet rare fish gains it's bright hues from the rich minerals in African red clay. Many children grow up catching the beautiful fish in small creeks near their home.

The Iguana is a part of Latin American culture, and so should be easily recognized by the local people on St Clair. This lizard is commonly kept as a pet, but can also be used as food. Paying homage to Toronto's iconic pet store, Menagerie, which even though the store closed after 20 years, had a giant Iguana icon that was so beloved by residents that it has been repurposed and is still on display.

Snakes, which are you an important part of the ecosystem in nearly every country. In Anishnabe culture, the Medicine Snake is a revered animal figure, respected for its ability to eat pests therefore protecting crops. My rendering of the snake is to show respect and acknowledgement of the Indigenous peoples rights and connections to the land that Toronto rests on.