Location, location, location

The misfortune of location is the subject of Mary Kainer’s installation in the Window Box Gallery. The two collaged side panels illustrate the location of the death of cyclists in the neighbourhood. Lying behind a ghost bicycle, car and bicycle tire treads collide in the central panel. 

Sighting a ghost bike I pause, take a moment to locate myself and observe my urban landscape.    

Reminded of my vulnerability, I pedal off and continue on my way.  Visions of my surroundings once again narrowed and foreshortened to concentrate on potholes, streetcar tracks, passing cars, ambulance sirens, traffic signals. 

The unseen presence of blood, death and injury seeps into the grey concrete and I seek the lines of white on pavement as shelter.Only the wind on my face reminds me there is a natural world beyond the danger.