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626 William Avenue
Location Map
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Location: SW corner William & Furby; East Face
Occupant: Rainbow Food
District: West End
Neighbourhood: West Alexander
Artist(s): Tiffany Seymour
Year: 2000
Sponsors: Take Pride Winnipeg!
Painters: Assisted by April Nepinak
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Artist Tiffany Seymour was given only one request for content of this wall: 'something
with an eagle in it.' The wall surface on the side of the store was not a good candidate to
be painted on directly. Tiffany painted the scene on boards at her old school, St. John's.
When she brought the panels to the location she realized the wall had a larger surface
area than the 8 boards she had done, so this gave her an opportunity to enlarge her scene
to include what is now the left third of the painting. For this newer section, she tried to
add a picnic scene and a campsite, but later abandoned this approach because its
perspective conflicted with that of the rest of the scene and the eagle. The final scene is a
nice aerial birdseye view of the lake woods, and islands. She was thinking of the
storeowner when she added the small rainbow because the store is called Rainbow Food.
Tiffany Seymour: "I'm not happy with the way the fish the eagle is carrying away turned
out now because it looks too much like the shape of a sausage. I think I could have done
the eagle better, too. I wanted to include a sunset because I wanted to add some more
colours to it, but, surprisingly, they didn't really like that idea, and they preferred the
scene the way it is now."
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