Three piece public art installation celebrates the theme of TIME

Created by Riverdale resident Eldon Garnett in 1995 and funded by the Business Improvement Area, Time and a Clock is a three-part, architecturally-scaled installation. The clock and accompanying text on the bridge –‘This river I step in is not the river I stand in’ - reference the Greek philosopher Heraclitus’ notion that you cannot step into the same river twice. The four-part text inlays in stainless steel at the corners of Broadview and Queen suggest common proclamations about time. The four slim steel flagpoles with stainless steel banners on the north side of Queen Street at Empire Avenue are shaped to look like cloth banners waving in the wind. A letter rides atop each pole (adding up to T-I-M-E), and each of the banners addresses, by means of its solitary word, the behaviour of time. Art critic Gary Michael Dault calls Garnett ‘one of the most inventive designers of public sculpture in Canada’. (Source: Nickel Magazine)

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