Public Artwork
Scopes of Site
Artwork creator(s):
Anholt, Jill
Text author(s):
Anholt, Jill
Installation year:
2003
Remarks on location:
Cascina/Denia residential property, near the towers; corner plaza of Nicola and Hastings Streets
Description:
The sculpture takes its form from periscopes and telescopes as instruments used for discovering what lay below the surface.
Text of the artwork:
(Incomplete)
1881 Spratt’s floating oilery in Coal Harbour uses dynamite
to extract herring from the water. After only a few years,
the herring stops coming.
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1884 The finest trees felled from the site are milled to 700m
Square by 34 m long then shipped to China to build the
Imperial Palace.
Text theme:
Exploitation of local natural resources
Artwork theme:
Past, present and future of the site; exploitation of local natural resources
History:
Completed in 2002. Installed in 2003. Note(s):
• Budget: $84,500
• Sponsoring organization: ASPAC Development
• Private development.
Artist's biography:
Jill Anholt Document(s):
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