Lego off to the Scarborough Races
Scarborough’s Black Knight is currently stabled in the lobby of Toronto’s City Hall. The real-life sized statue of a young black girl riding a jet-black unicorn is the first thing you see entering the Building.
The statue is built from 80,000 individual black Lego bricks. Named Cavalier Noir (the Black Knight), it answers the question, “If Scarborough was to commemorate its own heroes, what would the monument look like?”
Created by two Scarborough stars - artist Ekow Nimako and video maker Director X – they say the Lego statue “stands as an emblem of hope for the disenfranchised by drawing on hip-hop’s creative strategies: taking existing, discarded, often overlooked elements and flipping them to inspire and amplify voices of the oppressed.”
Originally put on display in the Scarborough Civic Centre with TD Bank funding, the work of art is now in downtown Toronto. A description panel says that it shows “a black child warrior astride a dauntless black unicorn”. Cavalier Noir
Lego off to the Scarborough Races
Scarborough’s Black Knight is currently stabled in the lobby of Toronto’s City Hall. The real-life sized statue of a young black girl riding a jet-black unicorn is the first thing you see entering the Building.
The statue is built from 80,000 individual black Lego bricks. Named Cavalier Noir (the Black Knight), it answers the question, “If Scarborough was to commemorate its own heroes, what would the monument look like?”
Created by two Scarborough stars - artist Ekow Nimako and video maker Director X – they say the Lego statue “stands as an emblem of hope for the disenfranchised by drawing on hip-hop’s creative strategies: taking existing, discarded, often overlooked elements and flipping them to inspire and amplify voices of the oppressed.”
Originally put on display in the Scarborough Civic Centre with TD Bank funding, the work of art is now in downtown Toronto. A description panel says that it shows “a black child warrior astride a dauntless black unicorn”. Cavalier Noir