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Moon Transit - St. Clair Streetcar Line, St. Clair and Christie south shelter, Toronto, ON - 2010
Two colour ceramic frit on glass
Dimensions: 71cm x 12.2m (28" x 40')
Four adjacent glass panels mounted on top of the streetcar shelter
Commissioned by Toronto Transit Commission
Moon Transit depicts the phases of the moon. A month of moons is presented in sequence against a sky whose graphic conventions are drawn from historical engravings. As subject the moon suggests both scientific projects of mapping and exploration and symbolic associations with natural rhythms and the passage of time.
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