In June 2025, I installed Sunset Canopy, a permanent artwork in the Tower Suite at Gladstone House in Toronto. This site-specific installation transforms the air above the bed into a floating constellation of leaves, branches, and circular forms—a dreamy canopy rendered in powder-coated steel wire that shifts gently with the room’s ambient airflow.
Sunset Canopy is conceived as both drawing and sculpture—an installation that occupies the vertical space above the bed, creating an intimate relationship between the viewer at rest and the work suspended overhead. Composed of gestural wire forms in warm sunset tones of orange, pink, and purple, the piece arranges leaves, branches, and circular shapes into a floating garden that hovers in the air.
I’m drawn to wire for its structural clarity and responsiveness—its capacity to define space through line alone. Unlike dense, solid forms, wire creates presence while maintaining transparency. It suggests volume and mass without obscuring what lies beyond it. In the Tower Suite, this quality allows the architecture of the space to remain visible while introducing a new layer of delicate, organic form.
The wire elements shift subtly with the room’s ambient airflow—not dramatically, but enough to keep the installation feeling alive. This quiet sense of movement introduces a temporal quality to the work. It’s never quite static, never quite the same from one moment to the next. As guests lie in bed looking up, they experience the canopy as something that breathes with the space.
I’m grateful to Gladstone House for commissioning this work and for their commitment to integrating art throughout their spaces. Their vision of creating environments where art and hospitality intersect makes the building a destination not just for accommodation, but for experiencing contemporary art in unexpected contexts.
Sunset Canopy, 2025
Powder-coated steel wire
Tower Suite, Gladstone House, Toronto
Permanent installation
