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.