Meet the artist who turned Montreal into an open-air gallery with over 200 sculptures

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Adorned with metal earrings, bracelets and rings, Glen LeMesurier sits on an iron bench he built in his Jardin du Crépuscule, or Twilight Sculpture Garden, just down the street from his workshop.

Repurposed parts, such as wheels and propellers, are shaped into new forms by LeMesurier to create the dozens of sculptures that populate the Mile End and other Montreal neighbourhoods.

“I just love to see form and steel and sculpture integrated into the neighbourhood,” said LeMesurier.

LeMesurier began working on the sculpture garden in 1999, when he says the lot was just a scrapyard. Over the years, he says he took inspiration

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