ITWP Live Audio Description
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Photos of a lush old growth forest fill the giant video billboards surrounding Yonge Dundas Square. Verdant trees and moss-covered logs blanket the multi-storey screens, adding a green tint to the dusky sky around us. In front of us, the forest covers a digital billboard the size of 200 King-sized beds. To our left, the forest wraps around a curved corner billboard 26 feet tall and 188 feet long. To our right, the forest blankets half a dozen video screens, some on posts in the square, others like a patchwork of movie screens mounted on the sides of buildings.
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The images disappear, and are replaced by other forest photos. Slender trees rise from the fern-covered forest floor and reach beyond the upper edges of the screens.
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In video footage, we rise up through the forest.
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Mossy, craggily bark blankets the entire screen in front of us.
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We soar over the tops of evergreen trees. Soon, the stands of trees give way to dry grey land littered with desiccated branches.
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A dry, dirt hillside blanketed with shard-like sticks and branches surrounds us. Aerial photos show swathes of grey, clearcut land surrounded by lush green forests, and pens of cut logs floating in bodies of blue water.
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Men with dark skin tones carry lengths of lumber balanced on their heads, and pull logs from murky water.
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