Monday, August 20, 2012

 The Vessel
Artist:  Ilan Sandler
2009

Toronto


"This sculpture of a water-carrying vessel is made from 4 kilometers of stainless stell rod.  The rod measures the approximate length of Taddle Creek, which ran from Taddle Creek Park through downtown Toronto to Lake Ontario.  The piece reconstitutes a memory of the buried creek by referencing its length and by bending the steel rod into water carrying arteries.

Water from The Vessel is stored in an underground cistern and used to irrigate the park.  Vessels have accompanied all peoples for millenna and are often seen as a surrogate for the body,like a container, it also acts as a fountain, relating the creek's historical significance as a life-sustaining water source to the future pleasure of the community."




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