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This past fall I revisited the Richard Serra Shift<\/em> sculpture, found up in King City, and wrote about it in my Toronto Star column<\/a>. The Ontario Heritage Conservation Review Board had recently ruled it wouldn’t support King Township’s intention that Serra’s work be protected under the Ontario Heritage Act. So once again a great but little-known Southern Ontario landmark remains at risk. Apart from reading the Star column, you can look at some winter photos taken back in 2009 in a post here on Spacing<\/a>. Summer trips to Shift mean dusty feet but in the sub-zero winter, with no crops in the way, Shift<\/em> is easily accessible.<\/p>\n

Before writing the column I chatted with Sonia Ramundi<\/a> who researched this piece for her Master of Architecture thesis preparation under Brigitte Shim at U of T last year. Sonia spent an entire day with Shift, setting up her camera and tripod in a number of places and taking a series of photos from sunrise to sunset to study how the light and shadows change the experience. A selection of them follows here, taken from her compete set (seen in the contact sheet below) \u2014 you can also look at Ramundi’s laneway housing post here on Spacing<\/a> from last spring.<\/p>\n

UPDATE Feb\/2013: King City council has moved to protect Shift<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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