At the north edge of the Place des Arts, one of the oldest murals in the city remains. A set of lips exhaling smoke in the orb of a yellow sun. Jacques Sabourin and Claude Dagenais painted the mural in 1972 for a small mural festival called Artwalls, or Cityscape by other records. At the time, the neighborhood was the epicentre of hippie culture. The mural marked the presence of this community and incredibly, it still remains, untagged and intact when so much of the area was replaced, buildings since torn down, hippies and artists left. With the community living and changing, the meaning of the mural is lost or perhaps, it also changes. Its psychedelic history sets the stage for the colonnade’s interplay of dimensions. We shift through the column gaps and openings, the pattern of shadows, beamed elsewhere by the rays of the sun.