What makes a place special? Is it possible to discover the fantastical hidden in the familiar? This project addresses these questions by mixing illustration and photography to depict a variety of homeless nature spirits who, having lost their forests and streams, are forced to live in the forgotten corners of the city. 

Combining my interests in urban landscape, mythology and the supernatural, these images suggest that the magical and the mundane can coexist in the most unlikely of places, if only we look closely enough.

Spirit City Toronto was published by Koyama Press in 2010, but is currently out of print.