compression

a conflated experience of leisure, migration and disaster preparedness

a public engagement project, North Sugar Beach Plaza, La Nuit Blanche, Toronto. October 5, 2019  Residency at Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands.                                     (photos and video by Meaghan Ogilvie) 

in Latin the verb to conflate – to blow together

a boat fashioned from a debris bag was hoisted between two pink metal parasols and kayak paddles dangled from the jury-rigged ropes

a phosphorescent beach tarp was pinned down by sandbags and driveway markers  became fishing rods with streamers flying