Photo: City of Vancouver
Rock Writing Recollections - photo by City of Vancouver
4099 Cambie Street
King Edward Centre Station
Civic
2024
Two-dimensional artwork
In place
Platforms: Nine Platforms for Seeing
Description of work

PlatformsNine Places for Seeing is a series of temporary public art projects that presented from June 2023 until the end of 2025.

PlatformsNine Places for Seeing commissioned 21 local xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and urban Indigenous artists. 

Selected artworks were displayed on the following platforms: 

  • Billboards along 6th Avenue between Arbutus and Fir 
  • Light box at šxʷƛ̓ exən Xwtl’a7shn Plaza  
  • Banners at Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch  
  • Glass wall at City Centre Canada Line Station  
  • Transit shelter posters throughout the city 
  • VanLive! video screen, Robson St and Granville St 
  • Glass wall at Marine Drive Canada Line Station 
  • Windows at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre 
  • Windows at the Vancouver Playhouse 
  • Glass Wall at Olympic Village Canada Line Station
  • Glass Wall at King Edward Canada Line Station
Artist statement

Rock Writing Recollections is exhibited on the King Edward Centre Station from September 2024 - March 2025.

Rock Writing Recollections is inspired by pictographs I’ve learned about from the territories in which this work resides as well as from the interior.

The work is a combination of rock writings from the past and those of my own creation. Many rock writings were of dreams, and some were used as maps. They are markings of our ancestors and I want to bring them into this space to witness the world in which we are currently living. It is a recollection of the past, a holding onto cultural practices, and stories as time moves forward. 

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