See Saw

A site specific installation at the Power Plant Art Gallery in Toronto.

8’ x 50’ x 5’ at 50’ height. Wood, steel, cable, pulley, electro-mechanical systems

The work is a suspended grid, based on the existing lighting and mechanical systems in the building of the Power Plant, hung just below the skylights in the long narrow space between the two concrete walls that divide the main exhibition halls. A small motor caused a slow 5’ teeter totter action of the 8’ x 40’ mock lighting grid about. The period was about 24 second, or about 2 1/2 times a minute. The effect of this motion was to alter, in ones peripheral vision, the perception of the perspective in the space; it made the concrete walls appear to subtly bend and wobble.

The work was a part of the exhibition “From Sea to Shining Sea” in 1987.