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[Citified.ca]

Thank you for Ross Crockford on the JohnsonStreetBridge.org group for the heads-up.

 

The group also asks several pertinent questions regarding the reduction of the City's Johnson Street Bridge public realm and street works budget.

 

Victoria's artists in residence Luke Ramsay and Lindsay Delaronde have unveiled their vision for an art piece part of the new Johnson Street Bridge replacement project. The angled and partially submerged surfboards are meant to depict an orca whale.

 

City of Victoria reveals $250,000 Johnson Street Bridge public art

https://victoria.cit...blic-art-piece/

[VicHockeyFan]

Well, that's quite a thing.

[VicHockeyFan]

Why not a scale model of the old bridge, that would be cool.

 

Plus for $250,000, we could get a few more dozen more feet of bike lanes.

 

Can we not take $50,000 of that, and fix the whale wall?

Edited by VicHockeyFan, 12 December 2017 - 11:11 AM.

[Nparker]

This design really reflects the great tradition of surfing that was the old JSB. I am delighted that my artist-in-residence tax dollars are being so well spent.

[Jackerbie]

I whole-heartedly agree that the JSB steel should be used in this space. Sydney recently revealed an art installation using the old wooden escalator stairs, which were removed and replaced with a modern system. Why can't we have nice things, too?

 

[Mike K.]

That's gorgeous.

[dasmo]

I agree. A work of art using the JSB steel seems much more fitting. An orca? fttt. At least it's abstracted and a nice form but still cliche. Also has little to do with this spot in particular. I would rather see an ugly sculpture from those rusty beams as a link to it's past.  

[VicHockeyFan]

Well, the museum's escalator (s?) is in bits, maybe they will make a museum piece out of it.

[Rob Randall]

There's no reason why we can't do both, the orca and the old girders. The girders could be an art piece (like the escalator stairs above) or it could just be on display, like the old wooden storm drain section near the Selkirk Trestle.

 

Besides, it's better to have at least two pieces. There's lots of space, they can play off each other and when there is only a single lonely piece of art in a space it has the unfortunate job of having to be all things to all people (Mowry Baden's arena art piece being a prime example).

[Mike K.]

Mowry Baden's arena piece still haunts me.

[Nparker]

Mowry Baden's arena piece still haunts me.

It's greatest fault is that it's smaller than the giant sign that turns night into day, making the latter the more prominent "art piece" at SOFMC.

Edited by Nparker, 12 December 2017 - 01:58 PM.

[Daveyboy]

I would prefer that one of the derelict boats be considered as an art display at the bridge site.  That way we can explore the permanence of impermanence while visually experiencing the transitory evanescence of the byproducts of capitalism in a postmodern cultural milieu.  Or something like that.

[Nparker]

I nominate Daveyboy for the new CoV philosopher-in-residence position.

[Bingo]

There's no reason why we can't do both, the orca and the old girders. The girders could be an art piece (like the escalator stairs above) or it could just be on display, like the old wooden storm drain section near the Selkirk Trestle.

 

Besides, it's better to have at least two pieces. There's lots of space, they can play off each other and when there is only a single lonely piece of art in a space it has the unfortunate job of having to be all things to all people (Mowry Baden's arena art piece being a prime example).

 

When they cut up the rail span at Point Hope they saved this piece for an art display.

It and some other parts were over near the JSB office on Harbour Road at one time.

 

[VicHockeyFan]

I nominate Daveyboy for the new CoV philosopher-in-residence position.

 

The aboriginal one, or the secondary one?  There needs to be two.

[VicHockeyFan]

^ ^ they clearly did mark it "save".

[Nparker]

When they cut up the rail span at Point Hope they saved this piece for an art display....

I thought this was meant to be displayed at the SOFMC (with additional pieces tagged as "on/on/on" and "Foods/Foods/Foods")

[Nparker]

The aboriginal one, or the secondary one?  There needs to be two.

Fair enough.

[todd]

Thank you for Ross Crockford on the JohnsonStreetBridge.org group for the heads-up.

 

The group also asks several pertinent questions regarding the reduction of the City's Johnson Street Bridge public realm and street works budget.

 

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Victoria's artists in residence Luke Ramsay and Lindsay Delaronde have unveiled their vision for an art piece part of the new Johnson Street Bridge replacement project. The angled and partially submerged surfboards are meant to depict an orca whale.

 

City of Victoria reveals $250,000 Johnson Street Bridge public art

https://victoria.cit...blic-art-piece/

Yeah those are missiles pointing? at a chinese bridge.

[johnk]

I would prefer that one of the derelict boats be considered as an art display at the bridge site.  That way we can explore the permanence of impermanence while visually experiencing the transitory evanescence of the byproducts of capitalism in a postmodern cultural milieu.  Or something like that.

Well said. I love transitory evanescence. You should be able to squeeze a graduate degree out of that.