Heaven’s Gate is based on the image of a cardboard box from the recycling bin at the Mount Pleasant’s Buy Low grocery store. The cardboard box hangs behind a shadow screen, lit by coloured lights that project a slowly turning, jewel-like image on the screen. Part mobile, part shadow puppet, the humble box opens the way to another dimension. If… Read more →
Artwork Tag: Mount Pleasant
Cracks and Vines
Cracks and Vines is a video memorial to houses erased from the Mount Pleasant landscape. Drawing from Milton’s fifteen year history as a Mount Pleasant resident, the work focusses on the recreation of wallpaper that once patterned the walls of rental suites she was forced to leave due to demolition. Exploring a tension between stillness and motion, permanence and impermanence,… Read more →
The Cherry Tree Project
Deborah Koenker and Roberto Pacheco lived in Mount Pleasant for 12 years during the 1980s, and constructed a collaborative work–The Cherry Tree Project– in Spring 1987. Referencing the Japanese ritual of cherry blossom viewing, the sculpture bridged boundaries of three private gardens to celebrate the tree from various unusual perspectives via several constructed sculptural elements, and to subvert private property… Read more →
MOUNT PLEASANT — PAST to PRESENT
MOUNT PLEASANT — PAST to PRESENT 18 short videos by Old Bruce My goal is to identify, preserve and celebrate the best of Mount Pleasant’s past, and help make it available and accessible to the people in Mount Pleasant’s present, and happily forever after. People have been living in the Lower Mainland and the Mount Pleasant area for about 10,000… Read more →