Elk Street Art Installation: Downtown Vancouver!

Vancouver Art Installation. City Centre Skytrain Station. Georgia and Granville. Absolutely Stunning Graffiti / Street Art!

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Elk for c̓əsnaʔəm

Photo by Cam Andrews Photo by Cam Andrews

The City of Vancouver Public Art Program is pleased to announce a new artwork for the Canada Line City Centre Station by artist Dana Claxton.

Elk for c̓əsnaʔəm by Dana Claxton, 2015

Vinyl on glass, 2.7 m x 7.5 m

Canada Line City Centre Station

 

Commissioned by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program

Curated by Rita Beiks

When asked to conceive an original work for this downtown site relating to the theme of c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city, Dana Claxton considered pre-colonial landscapes and animal nations such as elk, deer, bear, beaver, mink, raccoon, skunk and wolf populations that circulated through these lands by their own natural logic. In particular, elk forms a crucial aspect of First Nations subsistence and spiritual economies. In the artist’s Lakota Sioux community they hold power as a source of…

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The rambling concrete – Nina

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I’m beautiful with Audacity, “They call you Shade?!” He said. ” You’re shaded indeed…”. She’s nice with the raps. In depth, the homies in disguise he liked to say…

 I’m up many hours before the sunrise to explore myself. Dreaming of fleeting escape, no longer trapped. The raindrops scatter my city and it won’t be long before I’m unseen in the masses; trainbound. You don’t need fare for the Zion train just hop on board.

I’m beautiful with audacity indeed. I love my markers and spray paint; my skateboard and my slap sticker collection of winking flowers and dripping calligraphy. My magnum markers leave them to manage the damage; I’m constantly redecorating the City.

I’ve found my comfort in the dark places and euphoric ignorance. Through the streets and alleyways, trains and buses. I watch this shit twists and turns over many years amongst this science of drug trade…

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