The sorrows and delights of unsanctioned public art
. On the VAG’s stone steps, facing a busy pedestrian block, Tamara Bell and helpers laid out children’s shoes and small toys. Ms. Bell, who is Haida and lives on Musqueam land, is the child of a residential-school survivor.The shrine to the children who died at residential schools is still there, although it now lives behind blue fencing – to protect both the memorial and the Indigenous vigil keepers at the site. And it has grown.
How many people have learned about the tragedy because of this memorial? How many have taken that knowledge home with them; kept those children in their thoughts and prayers, if they are the praying type? That said, there has been dissent from arachnophobes, among others, who correctly point out that the piece was not commissioned or sanctioned.One morning this week, I came upon an older man holding the hand of a young boy, crossing the street to get a good view of the spider. “Isn’t that big and beautiful?” Louis Mark said to his grandson.
Sometimes in the incessant slog of city living come moments of surprise and delight. Like seeing a giant spider sculpture on your way home from a long day of work.
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