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  Noel Harding fonds
   
Noel Harding’s art work The Elevated Wetlands is a “functioning sculpture” that creates a wetland environment within six giant polystyrene “animal-like” plastic containers located next to the Don River in Taylor Creek Park. The sculpture uses waste plastic as a soil substitute to mechanically filter water from the polluted Don River. Plants and trees that are commonly found in wetlands and have the innate capability of biologically removing pollutants from the environment have also been integrated into the sculpture. This fonds documents the project from conception to installation. Fonds 236.

   

Sketch of water cascading through three greenery-filled elevated ponds

Elevated Wetlands concept drawing
1996
Noel Harding
City of Toronto Archives
Series 845, File 19

Sketch showing type and placement of plants in two rectangular planters

Elevated Wetlands
proposed planting concept
1996
Neil Hadley
City of Toronto Archives
Series 851, File 3
   


Water flows through three large yellow basins filled with plants. Two solar panels and a line of short trees are in the background.

Elevated Wetlands Prototype:
Field Trial Experiment of a Hydroponic
Growing System Using Solar Power,
Lethbridge, Alberta
1996
C. H. Thomas
City of Toronto Archives
Series 850, Sub-series 1, File 9


A crane carries a large white cylindrical container into place on a concrete slab. Two men guide it so that it fits over a pillar sticking up out of the slab.

Installation of
the Elevated Wetlands Containers,
Taylor Creek Park
September 27, 1997
City of Toronto Archives
Series 850, Sub-series 1, File 35
   


On a road in a park, a crane lifts large white sections of the sculpture off the back of a flatbed truck.

Delivery of
the Elevated Wetlands Containers,
Taylor Creek Park
September 23, 1997
City of Toronto Archives
Series 850, Sub-series 1, File 33


The top half of one of the sculptured basins is lifted into place on top of four legs.

Installation of
the Elevated Wetlands Containers,
Taylor Creek Park
September 27, 1997
City of Toronto Archives
Series 850, Sub-series 1, File 35
   




The Elevated Wetlands, Taylor Creek Park
1999
City of Toronto Archives
Series 850, Sub-series 1, File 55
   




The Elevated Wetlands, Taylor Creek Park
1999
City of Toronto Archives
Series 850, Sub-series 1, File 55


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