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Big impact in small spaces

Some times our small community parks can feel forgotten or neglected, but they're important hubs of connection!

The painting of the clubhouse at Powell Park, the Clan Animals mural by Kyle Joedicke, and the mural on the basketball court show the spirit and vitality of the community that loves and uses that space. It gives us joy and pride to see beauty surround us.

Boss

I'd like to see artists (and artisans) doing art in public. Performance is cool, but so is art and craft in production. I would especially like to see someone making stools/chairs in a public context. Axe work is particularly captivating.

An ode to Gumhead

Several years ago, I saw Douglas Coupland’s "Gumhead" sculpture in Toronto. It was a large bust of his own head that is speckled with gum, publicly interactive for others to stick their chewing gum onto. I loved it for its levity and playfulness, and was inspired to write a “poem” after seeing it. douglas coupland has a pointthere’s nothing too wrong with hucking a gob of chewing gum to the groundit becomes one with the pavementyou tell me that the pigeons, my beloved creature mascot of choice for our city, might get curious about these wads of gum and go…