Diaphane

Yonge Street, one of the busiest streets in the world, is home to over 200,000 people. How many of those 200,000 meet? How many of them forge relationships, and how many of them go about their day without knowing they are a footstep behind the same stranger? The pattern of one person’s shoe soles can fill in the gaps between another’s entirely unnoticed; the coffee order of the man in front of you is just one beat away from yours. The lives that run parallel to another, the days that carry fleeting moments of intersection, are all unremarkable features of busy lives.

But what if the unremarkable can become remarkable? This installation strives to showcase these fleeting moments. A “hello” that holds the potential to intersect and intertwine into lifelong partners, or a “hi” that is nothing more than an awkward greeting. Through an ambiguous interweaving and overlapping, this installation lights up the points of life that typically fade into the background.