Ask anyone in Toronto if they remember what they were doing on February 8th 2013 and it’s very likely they will recall what we’ve come to term “Toronto’s Great Snowstorm.” Snow isn’t unusual in Toronto of course, even though somehow it manages to be big news when it arrives. This winter photographic art print is called Night Falls. I called it that as night had fallen on the snow.
Telephone Box Story
The fact that something is missing, as in this case, always suggests to me that that’s a story to be told. It’s like when you see someone missing a front tooth. Perhaps the tooth was knocked out in a bar brawl with two suitors fighting to decide which of them secured the heart of a woman they both loved.
Deceptive Imagery
The installation is known as the “curtain wall” mural or the “Flatiron” mural and is actually mounted on a huge steel armature fixed to the rear of the building.Many people mistakenly believe that the Toronto version of the Flatiron is a copy of the iconic New York Flatiron building which is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The truth is the Toronto building was completed first, in 1892, a full ten years before its Big Apple counterpart.
Ancient and Modern
For me, a building is never “just a building”. I love the way architecture evolves, and we can see evidence of that evolution all around us – we only have to look up! I just love the way this photograph perfectly encapsulates two buildings that stand at either end of an architectural time-line.