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On May 12 the jury of curators met to select the winning entry in a competition to provide public art for Phase One of West Harbour City (see Fife & Drum, v. 10, no. 1, February 2006). Their choice was Nestor Kruger’s design for a decorative frieze of mosaic-glass tiles to be applied to the third level on all frontages except those along Sloping Sky Mews. The frieze is in a lovely pattern of water lilies echoing the lake. Stepping back from it, the white lilies take on the form of the fifty-five constellations of the northern hemisphere.
In the view of the artist, in the same way we navigate by the stars, people entering or leaving of the city will use West Harbour City, which has a prominent location, as a reference or navigational point.
Born in Montreal in 1965, Nestor Kruger studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design and now makes his home in Toronto. A founding member of the city’s Founding Disorders collective, he has exhibited at Toronto’s Mercer Union, the Eye Level Gallery in Halifax, Southern Exposure in San Francisco, and in a group exhibition in Lyon, France.
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