This multi-media piece by John McEwen was installed in 1989 in Asquith Green, a small park just north of Bloor and two blocks east of Yonge.
Mere steps away from one of the city’s busiest intersections, Patterns for the “Tree of Life” harkens back to Toronto’s earlier days. It acts as a reminder that our wilderness past is not so far away.
The work includes the following components:
- a steel frame, echoing the shape of a classic one-story Ontario house;
- three cut steel animals positioned around the house; two wolves and a fawn;
- a classic iron fence in two sections, bearing the outlined messages: “In the faces of our children” and “In the songs of our voices”.
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sculptedtoronto.blogspot.co.uk
This is the working hour
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The building at 299 Queen Street West went up in 1913 as the Wesley Building, home of the Methodist Book and Publishing Company (later the Ryerson Press). In 1987, this building became the home of City-tvand associated channels like Much Music, Bravo! and Space.
The building is currently known as CTV Queen Street, the corporate head office of CTVglobemedia.
But the initial tennants — the Methodist publishers — are the ones for whom the variety of terra cotta characters along the upper exterior of the building were carved. There are scribes, readers, and a figure representing ignorance (neither reading nor writing) all repeated around the building.
One of the characters had the rare honour of being animated for TV, inthis early 90’s intro for City-tv’s Great Movies.
(Source: sculptedtoronto.blogspot.com)
