Tex
On September 29th I photographed a makeshift shelter on the south end of George Hislop Park near Sanctuary church which provides resources and community to unhoused people. On October 2nd I met Tex aka Atni next to the same shelter which he was staying at. I was told about him by a couple of twins who spend time in the Yonge Street Linear Park network and have shared their observations with me. Like me they could not come to terms with the fact that someone like Tex, with both legs amputated just below the knees, was not getting the help that he so clearly needed. Tex spoke softly and was quite guarded. He tried to share a bit of what he was going through emotionally. He described his emotions being caged and them needing to get out. He spoke about the wide world beyond his own as if to relate being stuck in his world. On October 7th the only signs that he had been there were some flattened and yellowed grass patches where his shelter had stood.