Same tower, shadowy perspective

Make your influence felt
Toronto, ON
July 2019
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Toronto’s CN Tower is as iconic a civic signature as you’ll ever see. Like New York’s Empire State Building or Paris’s Eiffel Tower, you instantly know where you are when you see it.

That iconic presence means it finds itself front-and-centre often. Some might say too often. Aren’t there enough other buildings in Toronto equally worthy of a little visual love? Is there such thing as overkill when it comes to sticking a giant phallic telecommunications tower into the middle of Every Single Picture?

I guess it all depends on perspective. If every one of those pictures is taken from the same vantage point, in the same light, with the same composition, then, yes, it can quickly get to be a little much. Or even a lot.

But what if you shake it up a bit. What if you find new ways to look at something that isn’t so new? What if you squint your eyes just so and force yourself to see - or feel - it in a way you never had before? What if you turned the storytelling on its ear and told a different story? An unexpected one?

Never assume that a particular story can ever be fully told. Or an iconic, or familiar thing can’t be looked at through another lens, in another light, from a different perspective. There's always another way.

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