Flemo Park, Now Till 4Ever, 2022
30” x 30
We must think of placemaking and community-building in order to build sustainable models for food justice. Growing up in Flemingdon Park, I can remember a truck that would drive around the neighbourhood with fresh fruits and veggies. The man who sold these foods kept his truck filled with okra, sweet mango and cassava, staples for community members. Everything was priced affordably so residents left with bags full of fresh food.
I brought that memory into my process of making this piece. Here, I capture the innovation, liveliness and beauty of Flemingdon Park.
Nala Haileselassie
Nala Haileselassie (b.2001) is a multidisciplinary artist from Tkaronto completing her BFA in Film Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. Through film, illustration, printmaking, short animation and digital design, her current body of work explores afrofuturism, social justice and collective memory through her lens as a child of migration. She wishes to use her practice as a tool for collaboration, discussion and liberation.