To Love You Deeply I Look To My Mind’s Eye

Nuit Blanche Independent Project 2015

How can remnant landscapes be meaningful to neighbourhoods? What are the stories we tell ourselves to account for the configuration of the spaces we inhabit? What histories are erased as cities change, and how do we live within these spaces of simultaneity? To Love You Deeply I Look To My Mind’s Eye takes these questions as a starting point to explore the history of the particular landscape of Bickford Park and the collective memories of the surrounding neighbourhood.

Installed in Bickford Park for the night of October 3rd, 2015, this work explores the relationship between site-specific work and audience, celebrating an invisible geography that still resonants with much of the local community. From the Lost Rivers Project to the Human River walks, the historical path of Garrison Creek has been reinforced again and again by the people who live over and around it.

The project consisted of a river of 1465’ of solar powered LED lights and a hundred illuminated paper boats made with the help of the community.

Photos by Ricardo Jota.