Photo above and below by Barry Wallace
Photo above by Phyllis Vernon
Richard Serra's monumental SHIFT sculpture, southeast of King City is no longer accessible to the public.
The work was commissioned in 1970 by art collector Roger Davidson and installed on his family property.
Shift is a close collection of six large concrete forms, each 1.5 meters high and 20 centimetres thick, zigzagging over 4.03 hectares of former rolling farmland.
The present-day owner of the property wants to remove Shift to make way for housing. In 2013 the Township of King voted to prepare a bylaw to designate Shift as protected under the Ontario Heritage Act, preventing its destruction or alteration. 13 years later everything is still in limbo.
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Barry Wallace
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