Backstop: A Stage for Wordsworth
E 37th & Prince Edward
Ridgeway Greenway: Cartier Park
N.W. corner of East 37th & Prince Edward
Civic
1998
plastic covered chain link fencing & aluminum
Site-integrated work
In place
City of Vancouver
Ridgeway Greenways
Description of work
A stage backdrop including curtains and columns made of coloured fencing is superimposed over an ordinary sports backstop cage. An aluminum sheet along the top of the backstop acts as a pediment and displays a quote from Wordsworth: "This city now doth like a garment wear the beauty of the morning; silent, bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie open upon the fields, and to the sky."
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