Scalados

SCALADOS is an experimental kinetic installation that explores scaffolding forms with the use of light, shadow, and abstraction. Housed in the glass atrium of the recently completed Doyle building, the installation gestures towards a phenomenon common to city centres where tall glass buildings reflect and refract sunlight and create unexpected projections across the cityscape. In place of the sun, slowly moving spotlights illuminate miniature scaffolding and sculptures of urban architecture, projecting ever-shifting abstractions. The installation is a massive shadow lamp that shifts the viewer's relationship to banal architectural forms by inverting form and scale. The title, SCALADOS, refers to an obsolete latin military term for the act of climbing or scaling a wall using a tall ladder or prop, referencing both Halifax's military imperial history and ongoing development boom.