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.

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 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