Walls Becoming Windows
Installation, Nuit Rose, World Pride Toronto, 2014
A collaboration with Scott Sorli, projected from the windows of the 519 Church Street Community Centre onto the World Pride street festival. Through moving images and text, the installation asked viewers to consider the historic and contemporary visibility of Queer space. In Toronto currently, most LGBTIQ community spaces, bars, restaurants, and shops have signs and large windows that face the street. Historically, these spaces were unmarked, windowless, isolated, and hidden. This is still true in parts of Canada and around the world. The text read, “I remember the first time I saw signs and windows on a gay bar. Used to unmarked doors and shadowed lanes, I was taken aback by my reflections”