Public Artwork
Make West
Bronze shards pave 3 small ground level alcoves (or plazas) at the foot of a luxury condominium complex.
Incomplete
Chase not the goose but find solace
in the downy underlay of her
migrational desire. While we, earth-
bound (in the gravity of progress)
continue to segment our greatest o
mothers into cartesian nomenclatur
her wings cast after-images on our
rails, roads and ports
What systems, both major and
minor are complicit in this
symphony of locus-notion?
Sponsoring Organization: ASPAC Development
Artist Statement: "Make West is an attempt to represent the history of Coal Harbour and, by extension, Vancouver and Western Canada. It does so in the form of a series of shards, or extractions, which constitute a game." - The artist
City of Vancouver (2008) City of Vancouver Public Art Registry
http://app.vancouver.ca/PublicArt_Net/ArtworkDetails.aspx?ArtworkID=217&Neighbourhood=&Ownership=&Program=