This dynamic street art installation blends the themes of portraiture and representational art and is a featured piece as part of the Art Alleries project in Revelstoke, BC. This progressive initiative transforms the city’s alleyways into outdoor art galleries. (Maybe a link to https://lunafest.ca.?)
This triptych sculpture incorporates the arched recesses on the bricked back wall of the Roxy Theater as ‘frames’ for the three main components – a stylized, side-view face in the first ‘frame’, fingers holding a mature dandelion flower in the second, and feathery seeds in the third frame and carrying further along the wall.
The artistic choice of the dandelion is meaningful as a hardy, resilient plant with multiple healing benefits. The seeds dispersing in their whimsical fashion invite opportunities to reflect on change, new directions, and re-birth – stimulating and optimistic lessons we continually learn from nature when given the opportunity to notice. The ‘simple joy’ associated with a hopeful blow and wish extend the sculpture’s contemplative pleasure.
The stylized face and fingers are fabricated and assembled from pieces of copper sheet and riveted to a sub-frame. The dandelion stem, flower head and seeds are stainless steel and electropolished to create the radiant finish.
