The sculpture Wavelengths captures Lake Ontario’s dynamic surface and gives a public passage visual interest. Wavelengths is suspended overhead in a vehicular and pedestrian passage that runs within Market Wharf from Market Street to Jarvis Street, south of historic St. Lawrence Market.

Until about ninety years ago, Lake Ontario rolled over the site of Market Wharf. At approximately the level of the ceiling of the new public passageway, the lake’s surface glittered and heaved for many millennia, fascinating with its universally appealing beauty.

Imagine seeing the lake’s surface frozen in static, sculptural form. Imagine walking underneath and experiencing it. Wavelengths provides this experience. The artwork consists of one hundred and six 6’ x 10’ custom fire-retardant fiberglass panels on a steel structure, forming the ceiling of the passageway.

Imagine seeing the lake’s surface frozen in static, sculptural form. Imagine walking underneath and experiencing it. Wavelengths provides this experience. The artwork consists of one hundred and six 6’ x 10’ custom fire-retardant fiberglass panels on a steel structure, forming the ceiling of the passageway.