Public Art Registry
Artwork has been removed.
Canoe
Hamilton and Georgia
CBC Outdoor Video Billboard
Side of building
The artwork has been removed from this location.
Civic
2011
Digital Video. 1280 x x720p
Media work
No longer in place
City of Vancouver
Celebrate Vancouver 125 - Platforms
Description of work
2-minute animation
Artist statement
This two-minute site-specific animation was created by digitally redrawing 1800 frames. Using a series of manipulations and special filters, each frame of the video is hand processed to select and replace the figure in motion with the background of the image, which is water and sky. In the final animated image, the canoeist is barely visible, seamlessly melded to the moving water and sky. The work was created for display on the Georgia Street CBC video situated near the end of False Creek by the Georgia Street Viaduct. Georgia Street was named in 1886 after its namesake, the Georgia Strait. This work marks the entrance to, and historic transportation on, the Salish Sea, via False Creek. The name Salish Sea is now officially recognized in both the United States (2009) and Canada (2010). Its major bodies of water are the Georgia Strait, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Puget Sound. This work aims to connect the contemporary flow of urban traffic to the larger rural water-based traffic of both historic and contemporary times.
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