Public Artwork
All Intertwining
Location:
WaterWise Demonstration Garden, 14245 56th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada
See map: Google Maps
Artwork creator(s):
Williams, Blake
Text author(s):
Allende, Isabel; Dalai Lama; Roddick, Anita; Peres, Shimon; Mitchell, Joni; Guerin, John; Anonymous
Installation year:
2002 Description:
The Waterwise Demonstration Garden was designed to be sustained by natural rainfall. A large ceramic sign identifies the garden, and three smaller signs communicate the philosophy behind this water-conservation project, encouraging visitors to view water as a limited and valuable resource.
Text of the artwork:
[large sign that identifies the garden]
Waterwise
Garden
All intertwining
Water our source
Water our future
H20
[smaller signs describing the concepts and elements of the garden 1/3]
The hissing of
summer lawns
Joni Mitchell
John Guerin
---
agua preciosa
l’eau
vita
Sto lo
wasser
l’acqua
all intertwining
water the source
water our future
two hydrogens and one oxygen
---
from less and less
land, and less and less
water we can have
more and more
products, more and more
results
Shimon Peres
It’s those types of rituals
that I think are the sort of myths and legends of life
that I think we’ve lost in our
society. We don’t know how
to ritualize water. We just
turn on the tap and there it comes, but we don’t have
the sense of benediction
for water.
Anita Roddick
All intertwining cont.
people in the villages all
over the world know how
precious water is. The
women who go every day, sometimes twice a
day,
walking miles
with a jar on their head to
collect the water for the
family, ...They know how
precious it is, how much
every drop counts.
Isabel Allende
“The world is not ours. It’s a treasure we hold in
trust for future generations.”
African proverb
clouds
advance,
a river
descends
“If you run out of water you run out of life”
Uzbeki’s
“...our whole life depends on it so we have the
responsibility to take care of water “
Dalai Lama
river
polished stones,
a creek
turned
to dust
“If you want to symbolize life, it’s a bowl of
water. It has to do
with everything that is spiritual to humankind.
Isabel Allende
“we’re going to be having lots of conflict
between states where one of the major issues
would be water and who controls the source”
Kofi Annan
Text theme:
Water
Artwork theme:
Water conservation, sustainable gardens, environmental responsibility
Artist's biography:
Blake Williams
Owner(s):
City of Surrey Public and Community Art Collection Document(s):
Syndicate
