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Source URL (retrieved on 2021-11-09 16:18): http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/frozen-dreams

Frozen Dreams

Frozen Dreams [1]

image/jpeg iconSource: Photo provided by Blake Williams [2]
image/jpeg iconSource: Photo provided by Blake Williams [3]
Location:
Max Bell Centre, 1001 Barlow Trail SE , Calgary, AB, Canada

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s): 
Williams, Blake
Text author(s): 
Williams, Blake
Installation year: 
2000
Remarks on location: 

Spans the entire entrance corridor of the facility (Southeast Calgary)

Description: 

The mural spans the entire entry corridor of the facility and acts as a welcoming icon .

Text of the artwork: 

walking down to the pond

all the memories

came crashing back

 

first goal

 

the mountains, the sky and ice would turn red

 

my dad...well...he’d build boards

out of old sheets of plywood

then at night

he’d flood the backyard

we’d wake up to our own rink

 

where the mountains meet the plains

 

we’d

drive to the rink

in the dark

she’d always

make me

hot chocolate

 

long free days with a stick and skates

 

pond hockey

 

new skates

Text theme: 
Childhood memories
Artwork theme: 

Hockey, winter, families

Dimensions:

Height: 
9.14m
Width: 
12.8m
Note(s): 

Commissioned by the City of Calgary’s Public Art Program for the Max Bell Centre

Artist's biography: 
Blake Williams [4]
Author's biography: 
Artist : Blake Williams [5]
Owner(s): 
City of Calgary
Document(s): 
Public Art : Frozen Dreams
Williams, Blake (2009).  Public Art : Frozen Dreams. <http://www.blakewilliams.ca/Public_art.html> : Blake Williams webpage
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Links:
[1] http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/frozen-dreams
[2] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/frozen dreams2.jpg
[3] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/frozen dreams.jpg
[4] http://www.blakewilliams.ca
[5] http://vancouver.ca/publicart_wac/publicart.exe/indiv_artist?pnArtist_ID=171
[6] http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php
[7] http://plepuc.org/en/print/1767
[8] http://plepuc.org/fr/oeuvre/frozen-dreams