DALBERT B. VILARINO

Illustration for “Neighbourhood Watch,” p. 50

“The inspiration for this illustration on neighbourhood surveillance came to me while I was walking around my own North York neighbourhood. I lived at a dead end of a residential street, close to a nice park with a lot of trees and surrounded by a mix of townhouses and rental apartments. What was weird, though, was that the lights in the area were very bright and stayed on at all times. It seemed designed to make everyone feel constantly watched, which was the exact atmosphere I wanted to capture here.”

Dalbert B. Vilarino is a Brazilian Canadian illustrator based in Toronto. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Wired, and News, among others.