⚬ Description ⚬
Fits standard 5” x 7” opening. The original piece was cut and pasted by hand from collection of used and vintage books.
This collage not only beautifully captures the Winchester building, which is a local landmark that form part of the important collection of intact Victorian buildings in Cabbagetown, but also the origin of Cabbagetown.
Cabbagetown is Toronto's only neighbourhood named after the vegetables that grew there. Its history is rich with stories of immigrants and working-class residents and at the time, front gardens were commonly used to grow cabbages and other vegetables by the hundreds of Irish families who had fled famine in Ireland in the 1840s (symbolized by the clovers in this collage).
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⚬ MATERIAL ⚬
-Each collage is hand-signed by me on the front.
-The frame is shown for demonstration purposes only.