Artists and design team : Philip Cote, Anahita Dehbonehie, Nick Blais, Sébastien Heins and Ishai Buchbinder

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For hundreds of years, the Anishinaabe have shaped trees to mark an important route or event. The Seven Fires Prophecy speaks of a new world in which both western and Indigenous ways of understanding will come together. From the earth, veins of colourful steel rise and intertwine to form a marker tree that resolves as a single branch. Sit. Listen. Ignite. Grow.   

The natural logs that surround you bear QR codes that share Phillip Cote's words about the prophecy and the journeys it foretells.

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Fabricator: Mike Bilyk and Lafontaine Ironwerks Inc.

 

Art installed in High Park, Toronto