Living in a city, change is simply inevitable. But the pace of change around Mount Pleasant in the last few years seems totally unprecedented. The affordability crisis that has affected residential living around the city has now made its way into the commercial sector. Escalating property values mean more expensive leases and higher rents for small business owners. Since 2015… Read more →
The space between sun and clouds and shadows and snow and rain and cars and trucks and buses and bikes and wheelchairs and pedestrians and brick and wood and paint and plastic and leather and children and elders and hipsters and addicts and babies and houses and tents and condos and colour and canvas and pixels and goods and waste… Read more →
Proponents of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics promised that the billions spent would leave a “legacy” of public infrastructure, such as affordable housing at the athlete’s village. In February 2011, a year after games, I photographed the Olympic Village in Southeast False Creek. Read more →
grunt gallery and Cool Indians On Main Street teamed up on a project for the Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen! Charlene Vickers and Neil Eustache, the co-founders of Cool Indians on Main Street benchin collective invited Indigenous artists to make an open ended statement about Indigenous presence and benchin. What is benchin one may ask? Benchin is the act of… Read more →
In Mementos (2019), every object in a person’s bedroom is compiled into a ‘short-term sculpture’ to create a condensed image of their belongings, void of the spatial context that the objects live in. The arrangement of the things provides an intimate window into someone’s possessions through an abstracted version of their personal space. The participants of Mementos range in age… Read more →
These photos are from Merle Addision’s continuing series, Main & 7th. The images are taken within a few blocks of this location, just a couple of blocks from where Addison lives — his neighborhood. Addison is inspired by ordinary day-to-day life. These images are records of his experience, the artist’s impressions of the world around him. Addison says he finds… Read more →
Constantine Katsiris’s work in the field of photography goes back to a teenage obsession with abstract art. As his eyes glance over the details of weathered walls and surfaces, Katsiris feel that the signs of decay tell a story of change over time. Most of his photographs are cropped details with only slight adjustments to fine tune the colour balance.… Read more →
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 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 →
