Kelly Mark: Hold That Thought

Hold That Thought - 2006
Neon (Argon) w/ Programed Failure Units
15' x 32" x 3"
(2 @ 4'2" x 32" x 3" & 1 @ 7'2" x 32" x 3")
neon sign construction by: Orest Tataryn

Site specific installation created for the Nuit Blanche Festival (Toronto). Installed on the front facade of the Church of the Redeemer at the busy intersection of Bloor & Avenue Road in downtown Toronto.

Several of the letters were programed to fail or sputter (flicker on and off) at random intervals.
Guest Curated by: Fern Bayer, Peggy Gale & Chrysanne Stathacos.

Installed at a street intersection…where people are forced to pause. This sign asks one to also pause ones mind…’to hold that thought’…if for only a moment. The temporal nature of this fleeting moment becomes a unique and personal experience for each viewer.
Thought and language are intimately connected. We cannot have a thought without also having the words we would use to express that thought to another.
Streets can be viewed as the physical arteries of a city…When you try to hold a thought…the mind wanders, other thoughts intrude and displace…thoughts flow through our minds in the same way blood flows through our veins.

exhibition history>
2006 Nuit Blanche Festival: Location: Church of the Redeamer (Toronto ON); 2006 Wynick/Tuck Gallery (Toronto); 2007 Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto (Mississauga ON); 2008 Cambridge Galleries (Cambridge ON);