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It rained all day, so I finally started wading through the big backlog of photos I've barely looked at for months and months and months. #photography #Toronto #winterstations #publicart
A 3x4 array of convex round mirrors in red frames affixed to all 4 sides of a lifeguard tower at Toronto's Woodbine Beach, reflecting the surroundings, which comprise trees, people, sand and snow. It's part of the annual Winter Stations art installation.
May 24, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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A few other local gems made their way into the photo mix too. #WinterStations (3/3)
April 11, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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Standouts include the rainbow-shifting wooden hands of Embrace and the mirror-clad funhouse that is Chimera. #WinterStations (2/3)
April 11, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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My annual trip to the Beaches’ Winter Stations is back, and this year’s 2026 exhibition, Mirage, leans fully into illusion with five interactive installations that blur the line between physical and digital worlds. #WinterStations (1/3)
April 11, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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Ahh the before times WinterStations.
March 20, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Colourful Embrace (©2026, Peter Crock)
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A public art piece by artist by Will Cuthbert. It’s wooden piece in the shape of a hand, with several slats coloured in the form of a rainbow. A view of the fingers at the top, with a blue sky with clouds behind it.
March 20, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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Beach Crest (©2026, Peter Crock)
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A public art piece by University of Waterloo School of Architecture and the Department of Architectural Engineering: Clay te Bokkel, Isabella Ieraci, Matthew Lam, Sasha Rao, Simon Huang, Oskar Peng, David Shen, Professor Fiona Lim Tung. Crest emerges from the sand and snow of the Toronto Beaches as a sweeping wave positioned moments before break. From afar, the installation resembles a mere pile of driftwood washed up on the beach. As one approaches, the geometry of the wave gradually reveals itself. The waffled plywood form acts as an illusion where individual pieces appear and disappear with different directions of arrival, merging with the landscape beyond. The cantilever of the wave envelops and invites visitors to gather, sharing a moment to pause and take in the vast Lake Ontario coastline. Like the fleeting moment of a wave crashing onto shore, the installation serves as a reminder that reality is finite, and fulfillment is found in being present. A view from the side of the piece, towards the view of the beach and Lake Ontario. A forced perspective with two people walking on the beach with the curvature of the wood making them look diminutive.
March 19, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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(5/5) 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢 by Denys Horodnyak & Enzo Zak Lux (Ukraine & Germany) is the star of the show at this year’s #WinterStations. It was my last stop on my walk down the beach, and it does not disappoint. I am multitudes.

#WoodbineBeach #ArtInstallation #PublicArt #Toronto
March 18, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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(4/5) 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦 by TMU’s Department of Architectural Science in collaboration with Ming Chuan University School of Design (Canada & Taiwan) has lake water in its panels, creating an elusive visual, whether looking inside or out.

#WinterStations #WoodbineBeach #ArtInstallation #PublicArt #Toronto
March 18, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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(3/5) 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 by Tornado Soup (USA) has five windows to the world, with four showing you distortions of reality and only one providing a true view. I found myself mesmerized by the flow of the curtains in the breeze.

#WinterStations #WoodbineBeach #ArtInstallation #PublicArt #Toronto
March 18, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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(2/5) Here we find 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 by the University of Waterloo School of Architecture & Department of Architectural Engineering (Canada), an intricately crafted, curved wooden lattice shaped into a wave at its peak. Surf’s up, Cody! 🐧

#WinterStations #WoodbineBeach #ArtInstallation #PublicArt #Toronto
March 18, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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I hit the beach! #WoodbineBeach, that is, for this year’s #WinterStations, on until March 30, 2026.

(1/5) This is 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 by Will Cuthbert (Canada), the most striking installation of this year’s five. I’ve already called HR.

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March 18, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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Mirrored Sky (©2026, Peter Crock)
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A public art installation at Woodbine Beach. The piece is called “Chimera”, by Ukrainian and German artists Denys Horodnyak & Enzo Zak Lux. It consists of multiple cylindrical mirrors on four sides (12 mirrors on each side). The frame shows six mirrors at the top, reflecting the blue sky and clouds.
March 18, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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Light slips thru your fingers like grains of sand.

Toronto winter stations.

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Sun setting thru a sculpture of a hand.
March 14, 2026 at 11:15 PM
visionsabound.bsky.social
If you are human art will inspire.

#photography #art #WinterStations #Toronto #HumansOfBluesky #ECK
A person wearing a black face covering, touque and sunglasses with a blue hooded sweater stands in front of an art exhibit on a beach. The exhibit has imperfect silver cylinders atop red metal rods of varying heights.
March 12, 2026 at 9:25 AM
aperturesplit.bsky.social
Hit up the Winter Stations at Woodbine Beach. Everyone and their feral children are out here today.

#winterstations #woodbinebeach #publicart #eastcoastkin #toronto
Chimera engages with the notion of mirage through a twofold perspective. On a material level, it offers a direct, tangible interpretation of illusion, employing fisheye mirrors as aesthetic modules that distort perception. On a sensory and conceptual level, it serves as a dialectical reflection on the fragmentation of physical and digital realities, exposing the delicate imbalance between control and security – two cornerstones that define modernity. From a distance, the installation blends seamlessly with its surroundings, dissolving into space through a cascade of mirrored repetitions. Moving closer – the illusion unravels, revealing the framework that sustains it. In this encounter, the viewer meets their own reflection multiplied and displaced, a shifting constellation of selves that provokes an uneasy awareness of being observed. The viewing platform becomes a temporary sanctuary – a cocoon of quiet detachment – from which the gaze can wander freely into the open expanse beyond. Two shapes emerge from frozen ground. At first, shimmering slivers against the sand. They move as you do, looming silhouettes against the sun. Colossal hands, reaching out. To hold the horizon. To present the day. An invitation to behold and to be held. Welcome their embrace. Change your point of view. Gain a vibrant new perspective. A prismatic reflection of the warmth and light of the day. Two shapes emerge from frozen ground. At first, shimmering slivers against the sand. They move as you do, looming silhouettes against the sun. Colossal hands, reaching out. To hold the horizon. To present the day. An invitation to behold and to be held. Welcome their embrace. Change your point of view. Gain a vibrant new perspective. A prismatic reflection of the warmth and light of the day.
March 8, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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Crest, by #UniversityofWaterloo School of Architecture and the Department of Architectural Engineering
2026 #Winterstations, #WoodbineBeach, East End, #Toronto
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Photo of an art installation consisting of a structure like a creating wave on a beach with Lake Ontario visible in the distance.
March 5, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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Crest, by #UniversityofWaterloo School of Architecture and the Department of Architectural Engineering
2026 #Winterstations, #WoodbineBeach, East End, #Toronto #artpublic
Photo of an art installation consisting of a wavelike structure made of wood on a beach.
March 5, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Embrace, by #WillCuthbert, 2026 #Winterstations, #WoodbineBeach, East End, #Toronto - #2 (with anonymous photographer)
Photo of two multicoloured sculptured hands near a lifeguard station on a beach with a man kneeling on the sand and photographing it in the foreground.
March 5, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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Embrace, by #WillCuthbert, 2026 #Winterstations, #WoodbineBeach, East End, #Toronto
Photo of part of an art installation featuring a giant hand with vertical lines of various colours on a beach.
March 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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The simple structure had 12 round convex mirrors in a 3 x 4 grid on each of the 4 sides, with slight differences in mounting angle. So views were slightly distorted & combined a little unexpected & changed greatly with position. Very simple but intriguing.

#WinterStations #publicArt #Toronto
Detail of Chimera, Winter Stations on Woodbine Beach showing grid of convex mirrors in red plastic holders reflecting the beach
March 1, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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#WinterStations are up at #WoodbineBeach. #PublicArt #Toronto
two multicoloured hands about 8 feet tall emerge from snow covered beach sign for "Embrace" public art made of two wooden hands under stormy sky on a snowy beach two giant hands emerge from the sand beside a lifeguard chair
February 23, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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Winter Stations

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Embrace Description Two shapes emerge from frozen ground. At first, shimmering slivers against the sand. They move as you do, looming silhouettes against the sun. Colossal hands, reaching out. To hold the horizon. To present the day. An invitation to behold and to be held. Welcome their embrace. Change your point of view. Gain a vibrant new perspective. A prismatic reflection of the warmth and light of the day. Chimera Chimera engages with the notion of mirage through a twofold perspective. On a material level, it offers a direct, tangible interpretation of illusion, employing fisheye mirrors as aesthetic modules that distort perception. On a sensory and conceptual level, it serves as a dialectical reflection on the fragmentation of physical and digital realities, exposing the delicate imbalance between control and security – two cornerstones that define modernity. From a distance, the installation blends seamlessly with its surroundings, dissolving into space through a cascade of mirrored repetitions. Moving closer – the illusion unravels, revealing the framework that sustains it. In this encounter, the viewer meets their own reflection multiplied and displaced, a shifting constellation of selves that provokes an uneasy awareness of being observed. The viewing platform becomes a temporary sanctuary – a cocoon of quiet detachment – from which the gaze can wander freely into the open expanse beyond. Self Portrait in Glaciate The lifeguard stand has become the fixed marker of the Winter Stations competition: an element that survives each annual installation, anchoring every design to Woodbine Beach. A series of vertical polycarbonate panels, filled with water from the lake nearby, creates a set of ice lenses that glaciate the stand. As the lake water freezes and thaws, the panels cycle through phases of transparency, translucency, and full opacity. The stand is never wholly visible or wholly concealed; instead, it appears through fragments, outlines, and momentary flashes of red. This collage of visual clarity creates a celebratory mirage of the lifeguard externally, and a mirage of Woodbine Beach from within.
February 23, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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"It's so nice to see so many people out, enjoying the #artwork," Sarah, a neighbouring resident, tells blogTO, noting that she didn't expect such a big turnout on day one. www.blogto.com/radar/2026/0... #Toronto #Beaches #WinterStations
Toronto's weirdest winter tradition is back and people still love it
Anyone who thought Toronto's Winter Stations art exhibit was a thing of the past — or in need of a refresh — will be surprised. The striking installa…
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February 21, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Firth & final station is titled Chimera.

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Rather simple, but also cleaver design consisting of mirrors. Certainly a place for some photo creativity.

#winterstations #publicart #parksTO #winterTO #Toronto
February 18, 2026 at 12:38 AM