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Flow Blue

  • Stainless Steel, LED Lights, Resin
  • 2008
  • Carlton and Granby Streets, Toronto

About the artwork

Flow Blue is a Toronto Public Art Commission for Edilcan Corporation, sited on Carlton and Granby Streets in Toronto. The tree motif was inspired by the historic tree-lined Granby Street that forms part of this site.

An avenue of trees, seventeen feet in height, lines an Archway that joins Granby to Carlton. This avenue of trees accentuates the historic use of the path through the Archway, yet emphasizes the urban context by replacing the natural tree colour with electric-blue auto body paint. By night the vault of the Archway is illuminated with blue LED lights, simulating the sky.

Three hundred feet of stainless steel fence system, laser-cut in a flowing tree-branch design, lines the gentrified townhouses of the Granby Street area. Blue LED lights illuminate this fence at night, continuing the flow of blue and accentuating the tree-branch design.

About the artist

Marlene Hilton-Moore is a self-taught artist born in New Brunswick and living in Ontario. Her work is in numerous collections, including the Canada Council for the Arts’ Art Bank and the Wilfrid Laurier University collection. She has also produced a number of works of public art, including Monument aux Valeureux in Ottawa and Column of Valour, a monument dedicated to volunteer firefighters in Barrie, Ontario.

Fun facts

  • The tree motif was inspired by the historic tree-lined Granby Street that forms part of this site.

Engagement questions

  • Can art replace the beauty of nature?
  • How do you feel when you see trees made out of steel?
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