Landmarks

2006
Sandblasted naturally cleft slate with hand carved details on honed chalkboard slate
10 feet high by 7 feet wide by .5 inches deep

Landmarks is composed of a topographical map of the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital site and the adjoining ravine lands, sandblasted into natural cleft slate with white highlighting. Within the area of the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital property on this map, contemporary and historic fossil images have been carved into honed blackboard slate, from which the visiting and resident children can take paper and graphite rubbings.

One of three Public Art Installations by Carl Taçon & Jeannie Thib (Field Study, Landmarks, and Sky Map) commissioned by the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto. The emphasis of these three commissions is to establish a dialogue with the children who inhabit the facility in a playful and educational manner and address issues specific to the surrounding natural ravine site. All three commissions are linked conceptually by dealing with notions of mapping.