Threshholds. 2026

The title Thresholds refers both to the architectural threshold, which is the point where one space meets another and to the idea of a threshold as the starting point of something new. The installation uses this concept both physically and metaphorically; visitors cross into a new environment through an interaction with another person, with light acting as the medium that transforms the structure around them. 

The installation consists of an art nouveau inspired archway-turned-portal and two interaction stations. At each station, is a bar that participants are invited to hold. When each bar is held, the portal begins to activate. The portal can only fully activate and display a colourful light animation and soundscape when the two people make physical contact with each other. This progression allows the artwork to communicate its interaction through cause and effect: touch produces light; another person produces a second response; human connection transforms the entire structure.

Special thanks to David Low and Jason Bedard for letting us use their workshop in Calgary and Brook Rivard and Lily Nguyen for set up assistance