Art Of The Week: Liz Calvin’s Mosaics
As they did in 2005 to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, Liz Calvin and Bruce Walther are spearheading the design of Cultural Olympiad 2008 mosaics.
I met Mosaic Artist Liz Calvin yesterday at Sinclair Centre who explained that the mosaic above depicts a cross section of a tree stump surrounded by water and a vista of downtown Vancouver with Stanley Park at the top of the circle and the sea walk depicted as a regular pattern of bricks. It also shows Vancouver harbour, as the 5 sails of the Vancouver Convention Centre. Inside the tree stump circle, there is a bird wing, a bear paw and a salmon which represent earth air and water elements.
Liz Calvin’s mosaic is a wonderful work of art that we can all be proud of and is a great contribution of artistic expression to the Cultural Olympics of Vancouver.
You can visit Liz’s site at : http://lizcalvinmosaics.com/
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After centuries of native exploitation and abuse a lot of organizations are using the natives to make themselves look good. Some people don’t like the word savage because like those who started the residential schools a long time ago they still want to “civilize the indians.” I always remember Rick a Mohawk friend of mine, that I met while I was in the Army occupied Kahnawake in 1990. He explained to me how proud he was to be a “savage” and that the term savage was not bad in itself until the white man made it that way.
