Toronto Sculpture Garden

I had the pleasure of going to the Toronto Sculpture Garden, on King St. E, one light before Jarvis.

First of all, the visbility is pretty bad. By that I mean, it was impossible to find the place. It is wedged inbetween to historic buildings, and does not strike me as a 'park' at all. It looks like a nicley paved ally to get to the buildings behind it. I had to ask around and attempt to read the different signage near the park to confirm that this was infact it.

Below is a basic layout of how the park looks.


The park is made up of a main greenery area, and the walk way next to it.
I wasnt able to find anyone at the park, except for people who used it to get to King St. (they just walked through) But when you do find the park, it has a very welcoming walk way, with elegant lighting, and its clear to see the 2 entrances and exits.


Also, I found an artist statement (below) but no art! There was a large pillar in the middle, and I assume that might have been it? Or that had been removed.

The park did have realy moody and interesting lighting, but not much of an interaction value in them. The lights were very cool though, some of them even had smoke coming out of them.

The park did however afford certain things. There is an arched 'walkway' type area that you can use to walk around the sculptures to get a bettwer view. Also, there is a brick half wall that you could climb up onto to see the sculptures and the park from a different angle. There is also a grate bench that I assume was for sitting, although it was really uncomfortable (the metal had bent and warped, probably because people walked on it instead of sitting on it)

The Brick Wall you can climb on to see the sculptures at a cool angle.


The Middle Pillar and Walkway, aswell as some of the green



The Main bulk of the park


The Grate Bench (slightly deformed and uncomfortable) you can sit on.

There is also a concrete area, where you can stand and view the sculpture at lower angles (the conrete area is in a depressed part of the ground, making it lower)

Basically, the only thing I found of interest here, was all the different places you were able to move to view the sculptures.

The park itself allowed you to dynamically move about, without much constraints, to view the peice from many different angles, and viewpoints.