sketch

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update

I've been chipping away at various projects but not showing or saying too much about them too soon because the projects are bigger than myself alone.

I enjoyed going back out to the Lasserre building at UBC this week on two occasions.  First, to present a talk for Annabel Vaughn's 'node' studio - she kindly asked me show the students a few of the projects I have done over the past few years which have been situated in the public realm.  I showed: 'turf skirts,' 'fact/fiction worlds series,' 'ludo in soho,' 'egg + dart,' 'concrete pillow bench,' 'verb tests,' 'shelf project,' 'seed balls hung from viaduct,' 'floor project,' 'moving space diorama,' and then finished with some background info on one of the projects I am currently developing.

My second trip out to Lasserre this week was to take part in a studio crit for the first years - they did localized string installations based on some gathered drawing data about a specific part of an iconic building.  There's a buzz in the air these days about string installations!  Or maybe I am all of a sudden more aware of this type of activity based on our own string installation earlier this summer...

David and I are settling in to our new studio.  Below is a photo of the first thing I made there (after taking down our string installation and moving all our stuff in).

viaduct curtain progress

click to enlarge - this is the most recent rendering. 

found infrastructure

It's still early days

on this viaduct curtain collaboration.

underside of cambie bridge

unfinished painting, currently rolled up and in the corner.

viaducts fantasy

it's a gathering of small rental workshops and independent cafes/shops underneath the Dunsmuir and Georgia viaducts, with a cycling & pedestrian concourse sculpture park above. you could call it an 'infrastructural symbiosis,' or as i also like to call it, 'viaducts fantasy.' ideas in collaboration with Chris Forrest. not entered into the recent competition.

this is what it's like there now:

colouring book update

Copies of 'Colouring Under The Vancouver Viaducts' are available at Vancouver Special.

Under Cambie Bridge : page 5 inspiration.

colouring books

colouring book beginnings

so i'm making a colouring book. 'colouring-in under vancouver viaducts' is the working title. here is a sneak preview of one of the progress images - there will be 9 images in total:

...and i was going through some stuff the other day and found these images, which are from almost a year ago!

two hours worth

6pm

8pm

6pm

8pm

a few spring sketches

drawn with cold hands!

Burrard Bridge north side

Main Street Viaduct north side

Main Street Viaduct south side

Cambie Bridge west side

this week at the studio

been away...

here are a few of my sketches from recent travels:

Price's viaduct, Central Otago NZ

Poolburn viaduct, Central Otago NZ

Mackenzie Lake, Fjordland NZ

Hana Bay, Maui

Hamoa Beach, Maui

seed balls hung from viaduct

A project I did a couple of years ago. The idea was to hang seed balls from the viaduct, over a grassy patch.

The seed balls were made out of compost (from our kitchen worm bin), a bit of powdered clay (had to get a new blade for the blender afterwards), some wildflower seeds, and a bit of water. They were hung with bright orange yarn that was leftover from my M.Arch thesis project. More photos are on my website under the dark green button. The Main St viaduct is still my favourite one in the city.

pennies volume idea

This is an idea for a volume of space under the N side of Burrard Bridge to be lined with pennies, one every square inch. The space would become a shimmering look-out over the mouth of False Creek.

new floor under Burrard Bridge

we finished the floor on Saturday morning, but it took a while before the sun came out again and we could get a decent photo. this was taken yesterday around 7pm.

photo by DG

floor progress

it's about a third of the way complete.

floor surface prep

this morning at Burrard Bridge - photo by DG

under south cambie viaduct

I've finally dug up my old oil paints. It's been fun - I'm painting on mylar, with photocopies underneath.