Casting Glances
Adrian Blackwell
mirror, plywood, motor, variable speed drive, steel frame, 2010
February 14 to March 14, 2010
 
A five foot diameter circular mirror hangs facing Lansdowne Avenue, leaning fifteen degrees off plane. Attached to a spindle and motor at its centre, so that it rotates 360 degrees every 12 hours, the speed of the hour hand of a clock. The mirror tells the time through the direction it leans: upwards at noon and midnight, north along Lansdowne at three, down towards the sidewalk at six and south towards queen at nine, in both morning and evening. 

Adrian Blackwell is a visual artist and architectural and urban designer whose work has been exhibited at artist-run centres and museums across Canada. He is a member of the Toronto School of Creativity and Inquiry and the editorial collective of the journal SCAPEGOAT: Architecture, Landscape and Political Economy. In 2009 he collaborated with Jane Hutton to design and build Dymaxion Sleep for the International Garden Festival in Metis, Quebec. He teaches architecture and urban design at the University of Toronto.
    
Thanks to Josh Hall, Alejandro López Hernandez and Gene Mastrangeli for fabrication and technical assistance.
 
 
convenience is a window gallery that provides an opening for art that engages, experiments, and takes risks with the architectural, urban, and civic realm.
 
convenience
24/7 window gallery
58 Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto ON M6K 2V9
(at Seaforth Avenue, one block North of Queen)
www.conveniencegallery.com
 
contact: Adrian Blackwell
adrian.blackwell@utoronto.ca