City of Women, 2023
Commissioned by: RioCan for The Well
Consultant: Ashley Mulvihill, Ninth Editions
Fabricators: Carvel Creative
Location: Toronto, Canada
These are images of my initial designs and process. Final documentation is forthcoming.
When working on this commission, I thought about how volumes can defy the space they are contained by. I wanted to depict how body, landscape and architecture could shift back and forth in terms of perspectives and planes.
I thought about the repetition of forms—the arch of the sun, a building, a shoulder; the flat of the foot, the floor, the horizon. I wanted to find a balance between rigid, strict forms and fluidity. There is a sort of rhythm I am trying to achieve in these interlocking shapes like a deity who has their hands on a set of valves which seep, halt, flow forms of image and life.
-Vanessa Brown