ROLE: Designed, built, and installed.
PROJECT: (2014) For Toronto's largest alternative design show – Come Up To My Room (CUTMR) displayed at the Gladstone Hotel. Creatures of Comfort is a series of tiny installations peaking through the nooks and crannies of the Gladstone, suggesting that it is not only humans who reside in the historic hotel. Each object reveals something of the whimsical lifestyle of these tiny residents who live a parallel existence in the same space. They use hot air balloons to go to the next floor, gondolas to cross halls, and they have concerts on the mouldings of the archways. But each and every element represents something more – each is a metaphor for Sisley’s life. The hot air balloon represents love, the gondola represents friendship, the doors represent opportunities, and much more.
Special thanks to Fernando López
Photography by Agata Piskunowicz, Danelle Jane Tran & sL