Art for the 2019 festival fit in with the 100 year anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike.

The most iconic image from that time was the attempted tipping of a streetcar being used by union busters. After some research I found a photo from a similar vantage and time period to complete the picture through digitally matching and stitching the two photos together.

The final piece is a mix of hard primary colours over the image as a nod to avant-garde, the prominent art style during the Russian Revolution, which has been sited as the inspiration for the beginnings of collective action in Canada. The circles over everyone’s heads lead to a singular collective column emanating and tilting out of the streetcar. It also created the space for the poster text and similarly tilted text.