Public Art Registry
Wheel of Everyday Life
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Wheel of Everyday Life by Gunilla Klingberg - photo by Rachel Topham Photography
Wheel of Everyday Life by Gunilla Klingberg - photo by Rachel Topham Photography
Wheel of Everyday Life by Gunilla Klingberg - photo by Rachel Topham Photography
Wheel of Everyday Life by Gunilla Klingberg - photo by Rachel Topham Photography
Wheel of Everyday Life by Gunilla Klingberg - photo by Rachel Topham Photography
Wheel of Everyday Life by Gunilla Klingberg - photo by Rachel Topham Photography
Wheel of Everyday Life by Gunilla Klingberg - photo by Rachel Topham Photography
Wheel of Everyday Life by Gunilla Klingberg - photo by Rachel Topham Photography
Wheel of Everyday Life by Gunilla Klingberg - photo by Rachel Topham Photography
Wheel of Everyday Life by Gunilla Klingberg - photo by Rachel Topham Photography
Wheel of Everyday Life by Gunilla Klingberg - photo by Rachel Topham Photography
Wheel of Everyday Life by Gunilla Klingberg - photo by Rachel Topham Photography
Wheel of Everyday Life by Gunilla Klingberg - photo by Rachel Topham Photography
Wheel of Everyday Life by Gunilla Klingberg - photo by Rachel Topham Photography
Wheel of Everyday Life by Gunilla Klingberg - photo by Rachel Topham Photography
1262-1290 Burrard Street & 1229-1281 Hornby Street
Burrard Place
The five public art site locations include the water feature at the entrance to the Mews on Burrard Street, the Mews Wall, the water feature at the entrance to the office on Hornby Street, the water feature at the entrance to Tower A on Hornby Street and the underside of the breezeway between Hornby Street and the lane.
Private development
2022
Relief casted GFRC Panels, Galvanized steel subframe, Aluminum Ombrae
Site-integrated work
In place
Privately owned
City of Vancouver Private Development Program
Yaletown 
Description of work

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).

Artist statement

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.

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