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Traffic Circles

Photo: Barbara Cole

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Location

Garden Dr. at Oxford, Cambridge and Eton Sts.

Traffic Circles

Artist(s)

Shauna Gillies Smith

Artwork information

Program:Civic

Installed:1997

Type:Site-integrated work

Status:In place

Owner:City of Vancouver

Project:Traffic Circles

Description of work

Large boulders are installed as traffic circles in three intersections. Reflectors are distributed on a 6'x6' grid throughout the intersection.

Artist statement

Rocks are objects and obstructions. They are 'super nature' and their scale and siting are what raises them beyond being just rocks.... The context around them may be what appears strange.

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