Blink and you miss it. – Poem
installation graphics exhibits infrastructure etcetera cool stuff

Discover This project is part of the Blink and you miss it. project.
There are Mountains, there is a Sequence
Head east toward the weekend on Highway 10.
You have driven this route so many times
you barely notice the turnoffs marking miles, kilometres
towards getting there. Towards sleep or rest
or walk, or build or ski. Air or mountain.
You get a note from the architects of the universe saying:
you are passing history on your left, on your right quicker
than you register, faster than the signs for exits, casse croûtes.
There are hills older than a hundred million years
the magma rose and cooled and displaced crustal rock.
Mont Oka, Mont Royal. With their hidden plumes of light, intrusions
in the plain, mouths of earth pressed up against the sky.
Mont Saint-Bruno, Mont Saint-Hilaire and space for air
and road and farm. These hills – you’ve heard their names before –
or live there – or walked them as a child – Mont Saint-Grégoire, Mont Rougemont,
found leaves or apple orchards, uprisings, forests. Mont Yamaska, Mont Shefford,
and a car speeds by, a truck. Mont Brome, beyond the belted Appalaches
Mont Mégantic. The line, the lineage of mountains aligns you to and from the ville,
before the city and after, their language plumes up in whispers saying,
attend, attendre, even as you pass.
Regardez bien, elles sont là
Prenez la 10 vers l’ouest vers la ville
Puisque ce chemin vous est si familier
vous apercevez à peine les tournants
où l’on voit combien loin est l’arrivée. La maison familiale, les lumières
des bureaux, le boulot, la semaine vous attendent là-bas.
Vous obtenez une note des architectes de l’univers indiquant que
vous traversez l’histoire sur votre droite, plus rapidement sur votre gauche, plus rapidement
que ce que vous percevez, plus rapidement que les indicateurs de sortie, les casse-croûtes.
Certaines collines font plus de cent millions d’années
le magma rose et refroidi et la mouvance sédimentaire de la croûte.
Mont Mégantic s’offre à vous, puis Brome. Avec leurs plumes de lumières cachées,
les intrusions dans la plaine, bouches de terre accolées au ciel.
Et puis Mont Shefford, Mont Yamaska, et une étendue pour l’air et le chemin et la ferme.
Ces collines – leurs noms vous sont familiers – peut-être même vous y habitez –
ou, jeunes, vous les avez parcourues – Mont Rougemont, Mont Saint-Grégoire
feuilles ramassées ou vergers de pommes, soulèvements, forêts. Mont Saint-Hilaire,
Mont Saint-Bruno. Et un camion passe à grande vitesse, une voiture. Mont Royal
suivi du Mont Oka. La ligne, la lignée des montagnes vous enlignent vers la ville,
vous y éloignent, là, avant la ville puis après elle, toujours en attente,
leurs langages foisonnent en chuchotements
attendez, attendre, murmurent-elles, au moment-même de votre passage.
– Ronna Bloom, 2016
- A Conversation of Views
- Admiral Road Garden
- Airdrie Road Garden
- Airdrie Road Residence
- Albany Avenue Residence
- Alcina Garden
- Alexandra Park
- Alwington Landscape / Garden Pavilion
- Aporia Records
- Ardwick Townhouses
- Asphalt Poetry
- – Poem
- Baby Point Gardens
- Beach Garden
- Beach Village BIA Master Plan
- Beaty Residence
- Bennington Hts Garden
- Bennington Hts Ravine Garden 1
- Berkeley Street Residence
- Bin-Scarth Garden
- Blink and you miss it.
- – Poem
- Block 22 Landscape
- Bloor St. Apartment
- Blue Note
- Booth Avenue Residence
- Boustrophedon Garden
- Braemore Gardens Residence
- Brahms Townhouses
- Browning Avenue Residence
- Brunswick Avenue Residence
- Camp Arowhon Offices
- Canadian Firefighters Memorial
- Catch / Renew / Release
- Channelled Buried Moved Lost
- Chocolate Loft
- City Instrument
- Clarendon Garden
- Conversation Piece
- Cortleigh Boulevard Garden
- Creemore Farm
- Danforth Children's Dentistry
- Danforth Mosaic BIA Master Plan
- Danforth Parkettes
- Dickson Park Garden
- Dilworth Residence
- Don Landing Revitalization
- Dublin Grounds of Remembrance
- Duncanwoods Townhouses
- Dundas Roncesvalles Peace Garden
- Dupont-by-the-Castle BIA
- East Point Bird Sanctuary
- Eglinton Ave. Forecourt
- Eglinton Park Master Plan
- Elizabeth Fry Society
- Ellsworth Residence
- Face to Face | Tête à Tête
- First Avenue Garden
- First Avenue Residence
- Flyover Canada
- Foote’s Pond Wood
- Forest Hill Village Streetscape
- Gaze, Glimpse, Glance
- Global Affairs Monument
- Goldring Landscape, University of Toronto
- Gormley Garden
- Governor's Bridge Lookout
- – North
- Greener P
- Greer Road Garden
- Greer Road Residence
- Guelph Bridge
- Head in the Clouds
- Helena Ave Residence 4
- Jean Tweed Addition + Laneway House
- Junction Craft Brewery
- Kelpies Competition
- Kew Gardens Streetscape
- King's Landing Apartment
- Kipling & Islington Developments
- Lakeport Beach Neighbourhood
- Le jardin du repos
- Lenticular Curtain
- Leslie Slip Lookout Park
- Liberty Village Parkettes
- Liza’s Garden
- Lynwood Garden
- Macroscape
- Makwa Waakaa'igan
- Markham Garden One
- Markham Street Residence Two
- Massey College Landscape Restoration
- May Street Ravine
- Midtown Yonge Streetscape
- Montreal Holocaust Memorial Competition
- Mount Dennis Parkettes
- Mulock Park
- – Conservatory
- – Bridge and Riverine
- – Skate Pavilion and Trail
- – Art Studio
- – Maintenance Building
- – Heritage House
- – Playscape
- Nathan Phillips Square
- – Streetscape
- – Peace Garden
- – Podium Roof Garden
- Octane Medical Campus
- Orchard View Garden
- Osgoode Atkinson Green Competition
- Owl Cottage
- Paperstone Scissors
- Pendrith Residence
- Peripheral Sitings
- Pottery Road Crossing
- rare
- Ravine Forecourt
- Ribbon of the Lower Don
- Riverside BIA Master Plan
- Roxborough Garden One
- Roxborough Garden Two
- Schulich School of Business
- Sheridan College
- – Trafalgar Campus Master Plan
- Spadina Quay Wetland
- St. Anne's Road Garden
- St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts
- Stratford Market Square Competition
- Stratford Patterson Theatre Competition
- Superkids Dental
- Superlegible
- Sweet Farm
- Sweet Farm Pond House
- Swift Medical Offices
- The Meadows Reconsidered
- The Red Sash
- The Sara Jackman Playground
- Thick & Thin
- Thistletown II Townhouses
- Tipping Point
- TMU Centre for Urban Innovation
- TMU Science Building
- Tranby Garden
- Tree House Residence
- UBC Okanagan – The Commons
- UHN Tunnels
- University of Toronto Mississauga Welcome Centre
- UW Mathematics Landscape
- Venice Biennale 2012
- Vermont Square Park
- Vernon Avenue Garden
- Walker Townhouse Courtyard
- Walk the Walk
- Walmer Road Residence
- Welland Canal Fallen Workers Memorial
- Wellesley Cottages Garden
- Wells Street Residence
- Wendat Square
- Westminster Residence
- Weston Village BIA Masterplan
- With Words as Their Actions
- Woodlawn Avenue Residence
- Woven Stories
- Wynford Drive Residences
- York Park
- Yorkwoods Townhouses
- Young Centre for the Perfoming Arts