RECOLLECTION
When I was asked to tell a story about my neighbourhood, I found myself reminiscing about my nostalgic years spent adventuring up and down the Finch Hydro Corridor, in the north of Toronto, day in and day out in the company of a “fossilized species of giants running an endless relay race from the sunrise to the sunset.” I sought to replicate this sheer monumentality of scale by nesting a condensed diorama of the corridor between an infinity mirror system. There is a process of idealization in bringing old times to life when we engage in the hobby of model-building. What this project evokes is a certain sentimentality in the act of remembering—that our recollections are not records of things as they were, but as how we prefer to remember them. “Think Tank 1: Awareness,” OCAD U, January-February 2018.