Launch Pad provided opportunities for recent xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Vancouver-based graduates from art and design institutions to enter into the field of public art. From October 2024 - October 2025, five billboard spaces along the Arbutus Greenway, between Fir Street and Burrard Street on 6th Avenue, featured the works of 20 recent graduates. These exhibitions rotated, with each series displayed for approximately six weeks.

Conceived in Germany while studying Gustave Courbet’s series of Wave paintings, this work depicts the iconic Haribo gummy bear synonymous with German sweets tumbling through a turbulent wave. The image was born as a satirical nod to classical painting in a contemporary context; each gummy bear thrashes in the water ignoring formal perspective and logical depth, competing against each other to claim the forefront of the picture plane. The wave of green gummy bears swell as they culminate in the upper centre of the painting, conveying a sweeping dramatized formation of gummy bears against a stylized backdrop which references Courbet’s realist seascape paintings.