ROBIN ARSENEAULT

Balancing Act comprises three unicycles perched precariously atop amorphous, golden mounds. The unicycles look handmade out of nailed timbers and whittled wood although cast in bronze, a material known for its long history of memorializing people, places and events. They seem from another time long ago, no longer compatible with city life. The wheels are not round, the pedals are not within reach; immediately we sense their inability to move.

The concept of a balancing act recalls a performer carefully walking across a circus tightrope, constantly adjusting for the swaying apparatus, as a nervous audience watches on for the impending success or failure. A balancing act is also that thing we do every day: balancing this responsibility with that one; trying to get this thing done while being expected to be doing that. Here, Balancing Act is conceived as anyone's imagined spectacle or show stopping performance.