Wheel of Everyday Life was commissioned by Reliance Properties as part of their participation in the City of Vancouver's Public Art Program for Private Development. 

The public artwork Wheel of Everyday Life by Gunilla Klingberg consists of five installations at five separate sites within the development. All five installations and sites are connected by a comprehensive shape. The artwork is comprised of a kaleidoscopic mandala-like pattern in a large-scale circular formation which radiates with imagined energy waves outward from its centre-point. The ripples take the form of a playful visual pattern which reflects everyday and mundane urban symbols, allowing for a new kind of narrative which connects the development’s urban, public and retail sites.

Site #2, the Mews Wall, is the artwork’s centre point. The pattern is depicted in a relief casted in white concrete. The pattern extends to Site #1 along the wall, and continues to the ground plane water feature. The pattern expands to appear in the water features at the Office odium entrance (Site #4) and Tower A entrance (Site #5).

The Wheel of Everyday Life expands a kaleidoscopic pattern across several sites within the Burrard Place community. From its central point, the large-scale formation radiates a wave of imagined energy. The thoughtfully integrated pattern reflects the everyday experiences and social movements that link us together through time and space. A collection of urban symbols is playfully placed to create an open and existential narrative that reverberates from the mundane to more universal and cosmic forces. Inspired by gravitational waves and vernacular iconography the pattern and symbols reference basic human desires for safety, comfort, and acceptance.