Client: City of Toronto

Location: Toronto, On, Canada

Completion date: 1995

Artwork budget: $180,000

Project Team

Public Art Agent

City of Toronto

Artist

Eldon Garnet

Industry Resource

AllWeld

Overview

On the eastern entrance to this area of Toronto, on the Queen Street Bridge the text: THIS RIVER I STEP IN IS NOT THE RIVER I STAND IN. Stainless steel letters, 18 inches in height. At the intersection of Broadview and Queen Street: 19” high letters; four expressions about time; embedded in the sidewalk at four corners: TOO SOON FREE FROM TIME; TIME IS MONEY: MONEY IS TIME; BETTER LATE THAN NEVER; TIME=DISTANCE X VELOCITY. Beside the Jimmy Simpson Park are four stainless steel pennants, four declarations of time, a lyrical poem, one word per pole: COURSING, DISAPPEARING, TREMBLING, RETURNING.

Goals

Integration into the urban fabric.

Process

Worked with the City of Toronto.