Quincy Raby: Yonge Street Strip

Quincy Raby’s latest series, “Missing You: Lost Toronto,” is a lovelorn mixtape that pays homage to the city of our recent past. Missing You landmarks lost icons of a bygone era, tracing the transient nature of our urban spaces. The accelerating loss of venue in the geo-scape, through the commodification of public space and the extraction of personal interaction from the lived experience, commutes a subtle but persistent erosion of our cultural capital.

For some, these are sites of memory and nostalgia. To others, they are already too distant to be recalled.

The series and this specific piece, “Yonge Street Strip,” calls to our shared need to gather and commune in the spirit of “happenings.” Head shops, army surpluses, weird hair cuts, record stores, and South Pacific. Yonge Street was the mall for a different kind of teen. Currently available via Quincy Raby Art.