We were thinking about the elegant architecture, the activity of the park, the urbanity of Yaletown - and about the Vancouver’s iconic Lions in the distance, just beyond the edge of the city. We were also thinking about the stark, mystical mountain paintings of Lawren Harris, and a Canadian identity tied to a mythical sense of the landscape.
As you walk along the street you see something intriguing that suggests the wild landscape beyond—the dramatic, faceted form of paired mountains within the upper pool. The forms are identical but ‘mirrored’ to one another, a play of artifice. Peak (Ode to the Lions) is made of mirror-finish stainless steel—a refined medium, yet also playful and interactive. The mirrored surfaces capture and refract light, pattern, colour, abstracting the city around us, always shifting as the light changes, as people pass by.
As a metaphor, the mountains are about constancy, eternity, stillness—the internal journey. As objects, they are elegant, captivating and socially engaging. Peak (Ode to Lions) is an unexpected jewel-like object—an unchanging form always shifting with the light; like the landscape itself, still yet everchanging.