PAPER ORBS, TORONTO
Paper Orbs begins the night as a massive origami sculpture which dissolves over the course of twelve hours. Over five thousand paper helmets are concentrated in a pavilion on University Avenue in Toronto, beckoning visitors like a glowing lantern and a center of gravity. The paper helmets disperse into scattered constellations that parade and float along the streets of the city.
Visitors are invited to take a Paper Orb and wear it as a visor, collar, or crown, evoking sci-fi, Baroque, or monarchic time periods and facilitating the folding of time. Folded thinking devices are mounted on sleepless bodies restlessly combing the streets—little astronauts emerge, dragging their feet, staring into space, with unexpected gestures. Or figures from Rembrandt paintings with ruff collars, full of chatter, exclamations, laughing. Or glowing frames for heads, like crowns, halos, or celestial objects, silently meditating, bobbing up and down, surveying the scene.
Initiated By: Marcin Kedzior and Christine Kim
Design & Production Team: Marcin Kedzior, Christine Kim, Craig Crane, Saksham Sharma, Emma Dunn, Venessa Heddle, Cara Kedzior, Rebecca Lee, Dana Marciniak, Thomas Moore, Parham Rahimi, Rebecca Reed, Christine Rohrbacher, Joshua Sam-Cato, Adam Smith, Veronica Smith, Albert Yoon
Photo: John Richardson, Don Toye, Christine Kim, Saksham Sharma