Location: HSBC Bank of Canada building, 70 York St.
Date photo taken: 3 April 2014
If you're wandering PATH trying to avoid the weather, you might run across these figures. They are part of a group installation featuring five large pieces, all carved from Baffin Island rock. The polar bear is white marble and was created by Philip Pitseolak from Pond Inlet. The walrus is carved from gneiss, a granite-like stone, with marble tusks and it was carved by Taqialuk Nuna from Cape Dorset. Together with the other three pieces they represent figures from the legend of Sedna, but more about that in another post.
The work was commissioned by the Royal Trust Company in 1990 and installed the following year.
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