Lynn Valley Library & Town Square, North Vancouver, 2007
Commissioned by District of North Vancouver
Public Art Award of Excellence, 2008

The artwork refers to the tree of knowledge, the historic logging industry, and the local landscape. The image appears to be a magnificent old growth cedar, life-size, yet is an abstraction of an iconic historical photo, White Pine by Alexander Rodchenko. Culture evolves, always in reference to the past, always becoming something new: in the words of Jorge Luis Borges, “The original is unfaithful to the translation.”