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Source URL (retrieved on 2021-11-09 16:00): http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/daydream

DayDream

DayDream [1]

image/jpeg iconSource: Photo provided by Derek Besant [2]
Location:
Calgary Plus 15 walkway, Calgary, AB, Canada

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s): 
Besant, Derek
Text author(s): 
Besant, Derek
Installation year: 
1996
Description: 

DayDream is a text & fragmented image suite etched into the glass sides of a Plus 15 pedestrian walkway, over 4 lanes of traffic in Calgary.  One side represented the thoughts of a woman, while the other was the thoughts of a man.

Artwork theme: 

Dreaming

Dimensions:

Height: 
6m
Width: 
24m
Note(s): 

"In the early morning light, office people who worked in either of the buildings the walkways was between, walked through the shadows of words from the woman cast by sunrise.  At 5 PM, the people exiting work via the walkway, walked through the text of the man in low evening sunset."

 

Conversation with the artist, September 4, 2009

Artist's biography: 
Derek Besant [3]
Owner(s): 
City of Calgary
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Links:
[1] http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/daydream
[2] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/BESANT 12.Daydream_0.jpg
[3] http://www.derekbesant.com
[4] http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php
[5] http://plepuc.org/en/print/928
[6] http://plepuc.org/fr/oeuvre/daydream