180 Kent Street Public Art Comission ‘NORTHSHORE’
Posted on 14 April 2009
180 Kent Public Art Comission – ‘NORTHSHORE’ from Eli Rufe on Vimeo.
Winning concept design for a public art installation at 180 Kent Street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada for the Minto Development Group.
Artist: Noel Harding – noelharding.ca
Landscape Architect: landLAB – land-lab.com
Graphics: e.rufe – erufe.com
“landLAB and artist Noel Harding were selected as the winning team for a public art commission at 180 kent Street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada for the private developer Minto. The work, as titled, points outside itself – being a city mind dreaming of the woods. The silhouettes of plantings imagine, identify, and celebrate a symbolic character of the Canadian Wilderness that resonates in a quintessential relation as if holding the reality of Tom Thompson’s “The Jack Pine.” Plant material becomes more than simply landscape as they pay homage to nature itself; celebrated within a grand vessel. Reflective steel becomes the giant trunk of a fallen tree with an extruded branch, renewal in the reality of living trees and grasses protruding – turning (1RPM) in the physical illustration of time. NORTHSHORE is a confirming statement. The meanings are rich in evolution and layering yet succinct and pointed in symbol.”
from land-lab.com
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