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THE REORGANIZATION OF ONE HEDGE (2023)
The Reorganization of One Hedge was completed in 2023, but the opening of the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Train line has been delayed, not without significant controversy, to some unknown point in the future. More information about the line can be found here. The images here thus show the station still in progress and official photographs will be taken when the station is open to the public.
The skylight above an underground corridor connecting two parts of Kennedy Station (Toronto) has a transparent spectrum of leaves printed onto it, thereby turning it into a giant projector. When the sun shines through it will cast the pattern, in varying degrees of sharpness, into the corridor beneath. The "hedge" will slowly move with the sun, and its position will change with the seasons. Ultimately, the concept is about perception, stability and change over time.
The leaves that make up the hedge have been collaged into a gradient by the artist. The images come from a Common Laurel, a bush traditionally pruned into rectangular walls in English gardens. One bush in Regent's Park, London was photographed over the course of months to produce a gradient of green based on different times of day and weather conditions. The rearrangement is an absurd temporal cubism--an attempt to see something from every point in time. The corridor also contains vertical lightboxes showing parts of the foliage gradient. These function as a kind of root system that remains visible even when the sun isn't projecting the leaves into the corridor. The official list of artists can be found here.
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