Home & Away
Home & Away
Home & Away - photo by Lead Pencil Studio
2901 E Hastings St
Hastings Park
NW corner of Empire Field, near the roller coaster
Civic
2024
Galvanized steel and aluminum
Sculpture
In place
City of Vancouver
Description of work

4m wide x 17m tall x 40m long narrow section of a spectator grandstand with space for 49 persons

Artist statement

This public art piece is a gesture to acknowledge the historic grandstands and structures that have featured in the park over time, particularly Empire Stadium (1954-1993), a magnificent ski run folly of 1958, and the iconic mid-twentieth century wooden roller-coaster featured in Playland. The 17-metre-high sculpture provides an excellent view of the playing fields and surrounding area. This piece has roots in participatory art as well as athletic spectatorship and invites the public to engage at full-scale with large-format sculpture that is cloaked as a functioning bleacher structure. The public will experience the alluring form without knowing on the first ascension that the form is actually a sculpture that they have become a part of.

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