Fallow

Just after they had temporarily moved out of their building to allow for renovations, the Ontario Association of Architects decided to host a party full of installations.

This proposal was installed just outside the main entrance to the event, acting as a beacon and lighting the exterior space as the sky went dark.

From a distance the image appears as an unremarkable landscape, perhaps a typical Ontario marshland. But upon closer inspection, strange mounds of rubble emerge. This is in fact an image of the Leslie Street Spit, an ever-growing outcropping of land that already reaches 5km into Lake Ontario. The land is made entirely of demolished buildings and earth from excavations for foundations and tunnels.

The image was assembled in five backlit modules supported by construction-grade scaffolding. Installation design led by Poiesis Architecture.