Daylighting Trees
Jan 24
Feb 04 2025
window installation in-person
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Free
Jan 26, 2025
3:00pm 6:00pm
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55 Ossington Avenue, Toronto
Window installations are viewable 24 hours a day from outdoors.

Daylighting is the process of excavating and restoring previously buried watercourses, revealing them once again to the light.

‘Daylighting Trees’ explores this concept by instead exposing the beauty within weathered and reclaimed wooden architectural beams.

The display exhibits a collection of furniture and sculptural objects, all carved from the same salvaged material. The physical pieces are made by furniture designers Joel Galenkamp and Jordan Poirier and are accompanied by a written excerpt by author, poet, and woodworker John Terptra.

These three craftspeople seek to uncover the beauty behind utility. The tree humbly participates as a part of our ecosystem and our built environment and contains intrinsic, unforced beauty. It is a beauty that is often hidden by our own purposes and the time they have spent in dedication to them.

Participants

Joel Galenkamp, Jordan Porier, John Terpstra

Acknowledgements

gh3 Architects

Accessibility

Who should visitors contact with questions regarding accessibility?
Joel Galenkamp
For projects with printed information, will it be available in large-format and/or Braille?
Window mounted poetry will use large print
Can people get to the venue using accessible transit?
Yes
Detail shot of one beam
close up photo of all of the beams
Joel and the beams