Public Art Registry
Machina Metronoma (South Cambie neighbourhood)
37th Avenue at Cambie Street
Ridgeway Greenway
Four poles at intersection
Civic
1997
Fibreglass and steel
Sculpture
In place
City of Vancouver
Ridgeway Greenway
Description of work
There are seven sculptures in the Metronoma series, mounted atop 12-ft high cyclist-activated traffic poles located at three intersections along 37th Avenue Ridgeway Greenway at Granville, Cambie and Fraser Streets. On Cambie Street at the north side of the blvd is "Machina Metronoma: Another Way to Know That You Have Worn the Wrong Shoes for Cycling" (icon: roller skates); on the south side of the blvd: "Machina Metronoma: Another Way to Know that You Have Worn the Wrong Shoes for Cycling" (icon: skate blades); on the west side of traffic divider: "Machina Metronoma: Another Way to Know that You Have Worn the Wrong Shoes for Cycling" (icon: golf shoe soles); on the east side of traffic divider: "Machina Metronoma: Another Way to Know that You Have Worn the Wrong Shoes for Cycling" (icon: hiking boot soles).
Artist statement
These works were conceptualized as "a series of modern column capitals....decorated with iconography celebrating self-propelled technology and local history. Each capital comprises one of fourteen "Stations of the Crossings...."
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