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[Photo by KPA]
Toronto's "Wall Street" on King and Bay gets calm, docile cows, sitting placidly on well-mowed grass, with the skyscrapers as their shade.
The real deal has a Charging Bull.
Canadians are (not so secretly) envious of Americans, and mimic their culture in many subtle ways. Yet, aggressive assertion (America's péché?) is frowned upon. Let's put up our feminine, resting cows as symbols of our alternate competition.
The sculptures above are titled "The Pasture" by Joe Fafard. They look like they are in the tradition of Pastorals:
The adjective pastoral refers to the lifestyle of pastoralists, such as shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasturage. It also refers to a genre in literature, art or music that depicts such shepherd life in an idealized manner, for urban audiences. As a noun, a pastoral refers to a single work of such poetry, music or drama.A man in business attire was sitting reading a paperback, facing these ruminating cows. No charging through aggressive business meetings for him. It was a little comical.