The Poet, The Fever Hospital | Part 2

I should actually describe what it is you're looking at. I guess the most dominant part of this would be this black rock. It is Quebec Granite and it is what they call a "honed finish", and some of them you can even see saw marks on the edges. The next most prominent material would probably be these big dark cubes. They're welded out of quarter inch bronze plate and then this dark patina has been put on it.  And in fact you can see what's called "verdigris", it's the way that the bronze and copper tarnish. The next most common material I suppose would be galvanized structural steel. And then you have a mixture of materials in that big C shape. Then there is this big dish or bowl spewing water. It is a somewhat local marble. It’s from the Bruce Peninsula and it’s called Adair Marble. And then in the centre of that is a cruciform shape of stainless steel.

I think that a lot of the tension between the surrounding buildings and this work has to do with a kind of a preferred style. My work uses a lot of things on angles and tilts. And you can see that at the back of the work. Everything's kind of a dynamic of diagonals, whereas the surrounding buildings it's all very stable, perpendicular.  It's Euclidean Geometry and it's all about stability. My piece is all about a kind of instability.

Have you heard Part 1?

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