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Date: 2017Type: Photo installationLocation: Ontario Association of Architects HQ
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.
Our 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 a natural landscape - perhaps a typical Ontario marshland. But closer inspection reveals evidence of habitat creation... and distant mounds of rubble.
This is the Leslie Street Spit: one of Toronto's most unique landforms, a hotbed of biodiversity springing from a substrate of broken bricks, smashed concrete, and rusted re-bar. Life in the ruins.
The glowing image acted as a beacon, drawing visitors toward the event entrance.
The installation acted a gathering place as the darkness of the evening set in.
The image was assembled in five backlit modules supported by construction-grade scaffolding. Installation design led by Poiesis.
Related project: Frozen Spit
Related project: Undoing Ontario Place
Preliminary concept sketches for projection-based work
Preliminary concept sketches for projection-based work
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