PNE ReVision Art Project

The PNE contracted me to create three sculpture installations on the themes of sustainability, zero waste and energy conservation for the PNE end of summer festival.  And they also wanted one to be a performance art project, so spectators could watch a sculpture being built. I chose to replicate the Breaking Wave Burning Man project of 2012 which I helped make.

The original “Breaking Wave” was built entirely of reclaimed drift lumber collected from west coast beaches to call attention to ocean pollution from wood waste. A core team of five Vancouver area artists created and installed this all-wood two-ton sculpture at Burning Man and burned it midnight of August 29 to an enthusiastic crowd of several thousand people.

Since James Deane, one of the architects of the original wave was eager to build a copy of the Breaking Wave from local wood waste we assembled a crew of about 20 volunteers to do performance art for five days at the PNE building the new wave.

The second installation was a 16 foot high sign with the message “Waste Not” configured in plastic discards and waste aluminum.  My friend Willie Kushner was the genius behind it. Lastly, I created a sculpture around energy conservation,  I called the SolarPunk Ikebana, a metal flower arrangement illuminated at night with stored solar power.