REGINA LACE
The Immigrant Recognition Sculpture Project was intended to acknowledge the contributions of immigrant communities to the contemporary vibrance of Regina. Similar to the Halifax project Doug Bamford and I gathered stories and bits of graphic history and cut them into steel to create a steel “lace”. We then found individuals who represented various immigrant communities and took partial castings from them.
REGINA LACE – DETAIL
REGINA LACE – REVERSE
View showing second plinth across the reflecting pool
STILTWALKERS
Cast bronze figures and maple saplings.
Done for a rural municipal building the playful metaphor was that we are shaped by the land as much as we shape it. The figures were partly defined by cast leaves. The architects request had been to do something that appeared to link two buildings so the stiltwalkers are striding between the two.
NORTH IS FREEDOM
Cast bronze figures, water jet cut corten steel .
Working with Doug Bamford and George Elliot Clarke, we gathered the stories of the neighbourhood and cast school children that used the facility.
NORTH IS FREEDOM – DETAIL
STRATHCONA’S FOLLY
Stone, stone and bronze artifacts.
This children’s play area used real pieces of local architectural history to build a “ruin”. There were areas for physical play and for imagining as parents watched from the surrounding landscape. It was a “time piece” of sorts.
SHELTER/TISSAGE
Cast glass faces on float glass, anodized aluminum rods, wire and resin, fibre optic lighting.
This was a national competition to create a work with public participation to commemorate Canada 125. We cast the faces of 350 Canadians from every province and territory and chose 55 to reproduce in glass as a microcosm of the Canadian community. It represented a gender balance, age range, cultural and geographic diversity.
STRUCTURE
Cast glass, steel, granite.
At the time the building was constructed to house the regional government within which there were 11 municipalities. The sculpture offered 11 pieces of granite that looked like they might fit together if arranged correctly. The steel structure was a scale version of the bell tower on the same building.
HEAVENLY MUSIC
Plaster and plaster bandage gessoed.
Lutz Haufschild and I worked on this project as a very inexpensive solution to the embellishment of the library entry.