Local artist Eldon Garnet’s latest public sculpture, Artifacts Of Memory, was unveiled at Yonge and St. Joseph recently.
The 10-metre high, brushed stainless steel work consists of five lines of text:
FROM ONE NARRATIVE TO THE NEXT
FOLLOWED BY MOMENTS OF EQUILIBRIUM
IF NOT TOMORROW TOMORROW
SLOWLY SURELY DISAPPEARING
LUCKY ENOUGH TO FLY INTO THE FLAME
The texts, says Garnet, “deal with fundamental conditions of living in the modern world with a focus on the passage of time,” which is a recurring theme in the artist’s work. The most familiar in that regard being his 1995 Time: And A Clock, which spans the Queen-Broadview bridge.
Garnet is also a photographer of note. His collection, Garden of Hell on Earth, a dark retrospective of “a world collapsed,” opens a month-long run at Christopher Cutts Gallery (21 Morrow Avenue) beginning Saturday, March 5.
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