Lucy

Greta Thomas, a 28-year old single mother, works in one of the top advertising firms in Toronto called IMAGeNATIONs. She has a 6-year old daughter, Lucy who has a great deal of imagination & creativity. She’s growing up quite fast and Greta wants to make memories with her little girl while she is still young. Problem is that Greta is always working and as much as she tries to spend more time with Lucy, work keeps getting in the way, the job pays well and provides her daughter with the life that two parents would instead of one after Greta earned a great position at the firm. Upset, tired and working late on advertisement ideas for the new Shampoo line XtraCare by L’Oreal, Greta decided to take her mind of work and clear her head for a bit, so she swerves around in her chair towards her laptop, on the opposite table to her studio table. The screen turns on and her mail box is flashing with a new message, she double clicks on the blinking icon that reads “1 unread message”. It opens up and it’s from the university she had attended and had received her education in Advertising, stating that there is an event happening on March 26, 2008, 5 years of successful interactive presentations that encourage family and friends to join the OCAD community in the demonstration of the installations from the First-year students that attended OCAD, Greta’s first thought is that this is perfect for her and Lucy to enjoy together.

As soon as they walked through the orange doors Lucy charged towards, a huge circle that resembled a hamster wheel and stared up at it. The wheel had handle bars sticking out on one side to help spin and stood on a stand that was shaped like the letter “U”, it was held in place by a pole that allows you to manoeuvre the wheel in various directions you wish for it to face. The left part of the stand acts as a guard to the wheel and the right has five flat panels sticking out slightly touching the wheel. The wheel itself is covered in squares that push in and out; they are sorted into sections of rows and columns. Greta kneeled down near Lucy, Lucy points up to the contraption, “That one!”. They come up and Lucy immediately started pushing the squares out and the wheel turns a little and that’s when a couple of squares hit the panels, out came a noise. Greta takes Lucy’s hand to step back a little and tells her that their going to pull down on one of the handle bars for the wheel to spin. As soon as they do, music started playing from the device; the squares sticking out are hitting one of the five panels creating sound. They stopped the wheel and pushed and pulled in and out some squares, creating a new set of arranged pattern. Again they step back and spun the wheel together and a new melody starts to play. They laugh together and move one to enjoy the rest of the installations and finish of the day off with with a couple of brownies.