Sculpture

Hold That Thought - 2006

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Neon with programmed failure units
15' x 32" x 3"
Installation View: Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2006

Site specific installation created for the Nuit Blanche Festival 2006 (Toronto). Installed on the front facade of the Church of the Redeemer at the busy intersection of Bloor & Avenue Road in downtown Toronto. Several of the letters were programmed to fail or sputter (flicker on and off) at random intervals.
Curated by: Fern Bayer, Peggy Gale & Chrysanne Stathacos.
Neon sign construction by: Orest Tataryn

Installed at a street intersection…where people are forced to pause. This sign asks one to also pause ones mind…’to hold that thought’…if for only a moment. The temporal nature of this fleeting moment becomes a unique and personal experience for each viewer.
Thought and language are intimately connected. We cannot have a thought without also having the words we would use to express that thought to another. Streets can be viewed as the physical arteries of a city…When you try to hold a thought…the mind wanders, other thoughts intrude and displace…thoughts flow through our minds in the same way blood flows through our veins.

exhibition history>
2006 Nuit Blanche Festival: Location: Church of the Redeemer (Toronto ON); 2006 Wynick/Tuck Gallery (Toronto); 2007 Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto (Mississauga ON); 2008 Cambridge Galleries (Cambridge ON);