β Bright Waters offers this contemplation as a piece of public art that aims to remind viewers to play an active role in keeping water clean and true to its own nature.
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Quoting from the text, Garten notes that βwater moves everywhere, into every gorge, crack and crevice of the earth, neither shrinking from nor avoiding its natural path. In this way, it is true to its own nature.
The bench sculptures and luminaires offer a reflection on the movement of water. The art draws inspiration from the I Ching, also known as the Book of Changes, an important Chinese philosophical work.
Rain gardens are a small but important part of the natural and manmade system of water infrastructure in the greater watershed that sustains the City. Etched into the granite sidewalk is a simplified map of Capilano, Seymour and Coquitlam Reservoirs and their watersheds that are part of this system.
Bright Waters - Cliff Garten - 2021 π burnaby
The public artwork, Bright Waters by Cliff Garten Studio, is a celebration of water in Burnaby and Metro Vancouver. The work is directly related to the adjacent rain gardens. Integrated along Beresford street.
Together they are a play of form and meaning; the forms identical yet seeming entirely different.β
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Two blocks away, shed, an inversion of blacktail, invites you into its shelter, like a child playing in a fort in the forest. These sculptural forms imply an entire landscape, yet also convey an intimacy.
blacktail - Muse Atelier - 2015 π burnaby
Elegant and elemental forms rest on nearby plazas, as if they were shed by a mythical deer. Each form creates a space. blacktail, lies upright like an open hand, providing a place to rest.
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Through her use of vibrant colors and intricate details, she creates visually stunning pieces that evoke a sense of wonder and reflection. Kellyβs art has been exhibited in numerous galleries and has garnered recognition for its powerful storytelling and artistic expression.
" Kelly Cannell is an indigenous Coast Salish artist from the Κ·mΙΞΈkΚ·ΙyΜΙm (Musqueam) Nation in Vancouver B.C. known for her unique and captivating artwork, with a deep connection to her culture and environment. Kellyβs work often explores themes of the natural world.
This shared connection of themselves looking up at the larger-than-life butterfly high above will humble the viewer and hopefully will carry an awareness of the existence of all life whoβve lived and will live off these lands and waterways of Burnaby.
This installation is a chance to reflect on the history of the surrounding lands while being reflected by the dewdrop and reflective grasses.
Mirror-polished stainless steel reflects the viewer within a dancing halo of radiating blue ripples, demonstrating the power of one raindrop when collected with another. What is an ocean but infinite drops of water?
Three more water droplets in the rain garden are frozen at the moment when they re-connect with the earth, creating mini shockwaves and initiating dancing ripples in the water. The journey to the sky and back again is complete, and they wait again to return to the sky.
I aim to convey natureβs beauty into the urban space to complement the featured rain gardens and showcase them for what they are- a more responsible way to coexist with the land.
My inspiration comes from the beautiful surroundings of Burnabyβs popular parks today, which I often visit with my children.
Reflection - Kelly Cannell - 2023 π burnaby
Statement by the artist: "A butterfly with traditional Κ·mΙΞΈkΚ·ΙyΜΙm (Musqueam) elements drinks graciously from a dewdrop resting in the tall, damp morning cat-tail grasses.
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Dolphins in Unison - Eric Vanderzee - 1989 π burnaby
This metal sculpture of two leaping dolphins was bought by Cambridge Shopping Centres and installed in a fountain for the March 1989 opening of Eaton Centre at Metrotown. It was designed by Eric Vanderzee and cast in the Jack Harman Foundry.
The size and scale of the works enhance their incongruity, creating both a mental and physical displacement.
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The sculptures resemble traditional Monopoly metal game tokens to further reinforce the playful and game-like quality of the work. None of the sculptures are life-size, their scale as unlikely as their pairing (unless you are in a department store).
The sculptures act out to passers-by, a fantastic drama involving gastronomical delights, fashionable clothing, elegantly dressed dandies and the like, turning the plaza at Station Square's busy south entrance, into a halluncinatory landscape.
Not unlike a Surrealist collage, the work heightens the theatricality of the site, which resembles a stage set, setting into motion encounters between a series of strange objects that have nothing to link them, in a setting that by all appearances does not fit them.
The cast of characters for this work includes an octopus, a gentleman Dandy, a dog, a melon and a ladies shoe.
Based on old-fashioned Victorian illustrations, they uncover a parallel universe in which the present-day coexists with the past, to produce a dreamlike effect through the dislocation of time and space.
They are and were, a promenade space, a place of visual enjoyment and entertainment. Cordials is a series of sculptures that transport us back to the moment in time in which the shopping mall came into existence.
Cordials - Myfanwy MacLeod - 2018 π burnaby
Shopping malls are a 'dream-world'. Like their predecessors, the shopping arcades and department stores of the 19th century, they represent an idealized city, where streets are always lit, clean and where everything is readily available.
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Bloom is a singular work created from multiple forms which are positioned across both of the Met II entrance water pools, and is conceived to have a subtle dialogue with the artwork entitled "Unfold" at the MET I building beside it, whilst having a unique form and experiential quality of its own.
