File:Gateway by Millie Chen.jpg
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English: Gateway by Millie Chen was installed in 1997 and was commissioned for the Spadina LRT Route. Located at the intersection of Dundas Street and Spadina Avenue in Toronto on both the streetcar platform, this sculpture depicts four characters from Chinese mythology, the dragon, the phoenix, the unicorn and the Monkey King intertwined to form the Chinese character meaning “gateway”. A plaque beneath the sculpture reads “門 (men) is the Chinese character for ‘gateway’. By transforming into and out of one another, four mythological symbols, Fen Huang (associated with the Pheonix), Long (the Dragon), Qi Lin (associated with the Unicorn) and Sun Wu Kong (the Monkey King) flow together to form 門.” According to the artist’s website, this piece shows these mythological figures hybridized to depict transformation, and that gateways signal the transition of one community to another, reflecting the history of the Spadina neighbourhood as cultures are replaced by new waves of immigration. |
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