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“The city’s landscape is continuous transformation – a nuance of mass produced, yet individualistic buildings forming a whole. Concentrating on the vertical landscape of Toronto, each sequence studies the city through mass, voids, and contour.”

This series will evoke the city’s skyscraper evolution into three narratives: mass, voids, and contours. The mass will be presented through contrast of opacity and transparency. Voids will create a visual representation of the air surrounding the structures. The contours will show the outline of the buildings. Working with transparent materials, such as paper, vellum, and plexiglass, this materiality will be used to explore each study of the downtown core.

Having been the first time we worked together to design and build a cart we are very grateful for being chosen and we're thankful to have had The Stop support us along the way.

Jay Ess Elle Collective 2014

Here are some more photos from The Stop's Night Market on Tuesday. So much good food we wish our stomachs had more capacity to be filled. A huge thanks to Chef Scott and The Stop's volunteers for serving up some delicious Fish Cake!

After weeks working in the workshop we have had our ups, downs, and a lot of laughter; we have completed our cart for The Stop's Night Market. Even with the vicious storm it just caused us to build-up more of an appetite for the food-filled evening.

We decided to donate our cart's plywood, 2x2s and other wood pieces to their woodshop facilities for high school students to use in their future projects. As a graduate of this high school I am very thankful to Central Tech for accepting our donation and a big thanks to Randy for accepting our offer! We salvaged a few pieces to become future DIY projects for the summer and we look forward on continuing to grow our mini herb gardens too!

Once the herb grows to be about 15cm (6") tall it is suggested to pinch the tops to encourage branching. Pick your Sweet Basil any time for fresh use and dry quickly to retain the flavour. Thanks for coming out to The Stop's Night Market and visiting our booth! Happy growing!!

Today was transportation and assembly day onsite in the Honest Ed's parking lot. We've grown and nourished our herbs for the past few months and we have kept the herbs from The Stop well watered and loved for the green wall. It was go time as we assembled the roof, top signage, and green wall but we managed to get the cart constructed safe and sound. (A shout-out goes to Kaitlyn and David for their help at the end!!) We're pumped for tomorrow night!!!

We have also completed the statistics regarding the percentage of food bank usage amongst certain groups and within the GTA.

Two more days until the event and we're scurring along finishing off little details.

We collected moss from a local creek to be incorporated into the cart's signage. Here's a preview of what we're aiming to finish the text with.

- constructed the roof frame - laser cut the statistics signage - picked up herbs from Wychwood Barns (and been in the process of growing our own herbs at home) - menu signage - cnc the top signage It's going to be a busy week!!! Lots of emotions running through us but we've de-stressed by finding creative ways to use the laser cut letters in a new perspective.

△ painted the counter/frame white △ assembled and attached the 2x2 statistics onto the frame △ constructed the roof frame We can't get ahead of ourselves, there is still lots to do. But now and then we need a little break by seeing if we can "fit" into any new piece!

We have set-in the screw deeper in order to place a wooden dowel ontop of the hole to create a seamless countertop surface. Our basic frame is finished and we've discovered our shelf space can fit one human each!