The Birds Installation
August 16th, 2010
Design: Myfanwy MacLeod
Client: Vancouver’s Olympic Village
Date: 2010
Photo: Karin Bubas
“My work for the Olympic Village tries to infuse the ordinary and commonplace sparrow with a touch of the ridiculous and the sublime. Locating this artwork in an urban plaza not only highlights what has become the ‘natural’ environment of the sparrow, it also reinforces the ‘small’ problem of introducing a foreign species and the subsequent havoc wreaked upon our ecosystems.”
- Myfanwy MacLeod
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1. the skinny - by heavy ind&hellip | October 11th, 2010 at 21:04
the birds…
Whose Pecking Order is it Now? Heavy Industries took on the production of Vancouver based artist, Myfanwy MacLeod’s sculpture, The Birds, recently installed in Olympic Village Plaza, on the south shore of False Creek, April 18-20, 2010. …..
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