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Waterspheres Nine patina-finished aluminum spheres up to 1.5 meters in diameter comprise the focal sculpture for the central axial pool in this water reclamation park. After spraying off the underside of the spheres the water is collected and directed by various pools and channels down the hillside to sedimentation ponds and a bio-filtration marsh in …
Convergence The Convergence comprises four steel spires up to six meters in height, a waterfall entitled The Braid, a bronze band of text, and hedgerows of native shrub planting. Taken together, the total work defines the eastern threshold of the Victoria Promenade and is the featured sculptural element of the half-kilometer long park along Edmonton’s North Saskatchewan …
River Fragments River Fragments references the underground rivers coursing beneath downtown Calgary in the area of the Sun Life Building, which have been chambered, deflected, and channeled as the built environment grows. The pieces are moveable by hand or by wind. This work is part of a series exploring games and gameboards. Size: 2.5m x 2.5m x3.3 …
Border Markers Because the City of Lloydminster predates the Dominion Land Survey, the Alberta/Saskatchewan border runs through the middle of the city. This required it to be chartered in both provinces, thus making it the only municipality in North America to be chartered in two jurisdictions. The Lloydminster Border Marker celebrates this unique circumstance by creating a …
Waterwork This water-driven kinetic steel sculpture sits in a shallow pool as the focus for the BC Hydro plaza at 333 Dunsmuir Street in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Incoming water causes the upper unit to tip and spill water into the lower unit. It then rights itself as its centre of gravity is restored and repeats …
Landbuoys The Landbuoy sculpture series draws from and evokes ocean buoys, iconic artifacts that serve as warning signs and place markers. Here the buoys are out of water, objects left stranded by disappearing lakes, retreating glaciers, or receding geological seas, and their rounded bottoms creating an inherent tension with their placement and environment. The sculptures …
Fanfare The Fanfare wall sculpture celebrates the creative impulse imbued in all performances in all theatres. Utilizing or refracting musical notation, dance labanation, scripts, text, sound plots, lighting diagrams, tabulature, set architecture, etc, framed in the plan view of an auditorium. Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton, Alberta Size: 24ft x 11ft hgt Date: 2011
Threshold Gates These gates define the threshold into the “removed space” of the newly-dedicated Royal View Memorial Cemetery in the City of Lethbridge, Alberta. Occupying land adjacent to the long-defunct Royal View Mine, the cemetery commemorates the Mine and the contribution it made to the lives and economy in the early days of the City …
Alphaball The work comprises the letters of the alphabet and the “whole” numbers in base ten which, when taken together, form the building blocks for all that is contained within the library shelves. Landscape architect for the plaza was Richard Findley landscape Architect Inc. New Westminster Public Library, New Westminster, BC. Size: 1.2m (4ft.) diameter …
Altered Ground Altered Ground, winner of nation-wide sculpture competition, draws from the imagery of geologic bedding planes tipped vertically by tectonic forces as they create the Rocky Mountains. The sculpture and its setting speaks to the geology and morphology of the mountain environment — as well as musical notation and tabulation, laminar flow, pinball games, etc. The 7.3m (24ft) diameter plinth has …
