Steele and Tomczak


Watertable Memory, when left alone, often creates phantasms, creatures that will not obey reason, insinuations from the past that will not follow the rules. WATERTABLE will raise the dead shoreline to haunt the living, forcing the wall of glass-skinned condo towers to forever check their back. The unsettling presence of the past situated squarely within this futuristic landscape of glass towers creates a sense of urban tension that resists resolution. WATERTABLE with its highly visable shimmering presence remembers the original shoreline and reminds the passers-by of how close the 18th century Fort was to the shoreline of the great Lake Ontario when the first garrison was built in 1793 official website

Love² Love Squared is a public art commission for the large outdoor video board on the northeast corner of Yonge & Dundas. Love Squared works within the existing codes of signification already operating in the media-scape of the Yonge & Dundas cross-roads while at the same time slyly subverting them. In the busy Yonge & Dundas landscape, the ads work together – while each also fights for space and attention to make a “commercial space” for the product/service being proffered, eager to elbow out the competition, yet obediently staying within the self-policing boundaries of public space (these boundaries are both physical and social). more info

Terminus For the "Leona Drive Project” we thought about the site itself – a humble tract containing 5 typical north Toronto (Willowdale) bungalows built between 1948 and 1950 – all about to be demolished. We considered how to make a work that would speak of this demise, this disappearance in some elegiac way – but not with sentimentality. We wanted to make something that would use the vernacular voice of the houses themselves, use their speech, use their own rather chaste syntax of small rooms and cramped 2nd floor bedrooms carved out of crawl spaces and dormers. more info