Toronto artist Clarissa Lewis should be declared the unofficial poet laureate of the Leslie Street Spit, but she probably wouldn’t take the credit. In 2017, the Star revealed that artist Robert Zunke was creating structures out of discarded materials at the Spit. But for Lewis, and others who she refers to as “Spit people,” this place represented an epicentre of creativity. There’s money, there’s critics,” Lewis says. “There’s fame; there’s all of the things that are attached to making art.

Source: thestar December 26, 2019 15:06 UTC