Hollywood on the Humber: the Toronto sculptures of Alfio Bartoletti

The young mother’s patience is wearing thin. Her two young boys simply won’t leave the fountain. While the river rocks beside the giant clam fascinate the older one, the young one stares in wide-eyed wonder at the mermaid.

It is worthy of a good stare: the unusual mermaid sports two tails in order to straddle the merhorse – the equine has gills and its body ends in a fish tail – and the frozen scene of merhorse rearing up at the sight of the angry, hissing clam as its nude rider grips the reins, well, it looks like something out of a fantasy movie.