compass rose

This work combines a simplified image of the Ottawa area landscape as seen from an earth satellite with a drawing of a surveyor's sextant over the city which partly obscures the word "domicile" so that it reads "docile". The stone is set into the pavement so that the map is oriented to geomagnetic north. The image puns in a number of ways on the idea of place.This artwork could be said to be in the present tense in terms of how we understand or define topography today as opposed to other artwork on the mall which borrows a surveyor's narrative that is almost 200 years old and primarily concerned with a warm place to sleep and drink. One work is about being there another is about more indirect experience.

visit the monument in the pavement near King Edward Street