After clearing Canadian customs and descending in the baggage claim area of T1 for the 15th time in 2012, I'm finally trying to decode the long string of scripted text along upper portion of the wall. It's written in neon lights and I think sometimes it strobes.
Does this text actually mean or spell anything?
There is a pic of one letter here:
https://is1.4sqi.net/derived_pix/R2FaC8a3L9TZpOhWOYziFELBCytSvCb9fQJtE0202U8_300x30 0.jpg
I have to get more sleep...
mabramovich
Jul 26, 12, 9:57 am
Page 16: http://www.torontopearson.com/uploadedFiles/Pearson/Content/ToDo_at_Pearson/Art_and_Exhibits/art_catalogue.pdf
For anyone else who wondered, from the link:
Susan Schelle (Canadian, b. Hamilton, Ontario 1947) and
Mark Gomes (Canadian, b. Sarnia, Ontario 1949)
Jetstream 2003
Aluminum, granite, bronze
Six floor inlays: each 3 metres diameter
Suspended configurations: 66 x 13 metres
Collection of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority
“
The weather is our national pastime; it is a subject and
language shared by all, and a dialogue that is always curious.
Speculations never end, and the outcome, more often than not,
is a surprise. It is the weather and the visual imagery associated
with it that we have drawn from – a lexicon of positive
atmospheric phenomena, an area of rich representation and
familiar abstraction. Weather and flight are intimately linked,
with no translation necessary. Weather is a fact with its own
built-in sense of place.
mabramovich
Jul 26, 12, 10:25 am
For anyone else who wondered, from the link:
Susan Schelle (Canadian, b. Hamilton, Ontario 1947) and
Mark Gomes (Canadian, b. Sarnia, Ontario 1949)
Jetstream 2003
Aluminum, granite, bronze
Six floor inlays: each 3 metres diameter
Suspended configurations: 66 x 13 metres
Collection of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority
The weather is our national pastime; it is a subject and
language shared by all, and a dialogue that is always curious.
Speculations never end, and the outcome, more often than not,
is a surprise. It is the weather and the visual imagery associated
with it that we have drawn from a lexicon of positive
atmospheric phenomena, an area of rich representation and
familiar abstraction. Weather and flight are intimately linked,
with no translation necessary. Weather is a fact with its own
built-in sense of place.
I don't think it's that one, I think it is:
Jaume Plensa (Spanish, b. Barcelona, Spain 1955)
As One
20012003
Neon tubing, bi-coloured glass, metal plates, stainless steel rods
4 x 130 metres
Neon fabricated by Swon, Montreal, Quebec
Collection of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority
In a virtual geological period, the continents drift apart once
again, only to fuse into one. Canada is a clear symbol of the
social integration and cultural fusion that announces the
future. As One
uses the names of the five continents, superimposing them until they are blended into one word that we still
have not learned to understand. Spontaneously, the isolated
names of the individual continents appear, only to eventually
reintegrate themselves, once again, into the new word
RCyyz
Jul 26, 12, 11:53 am
I like Earthbound the best. (The cubes in the giant tank of water.)
Cubes is definitely my favourite whenever I can go by it... mesmerizing!