Structured in the shape of a large cross section of a tree, Time & Cycles references the original giant red cedar trees that once adorned the slopes in this neighhbourhood and for which the Cedar Hills community branch is named.
Time & Cycles
Papier-mâché
9' x 9' (2.7m x 2.7m)
2015
Located at Vancity Credit Union Cedar Hills Community Branch, Surrey, BC
Time & Cycles is created using a papier-mâché technique, with thousands of pieces of newspaper and old Vancity brochures. The artwork manifests metaphorically and artistically a cycle returning back to itself: from wood growing in a forest, to becoming wood pulp, then being processed into paper on which news and brochures were printed and shared with people until finally returning to its primordial shape of a cedar log.
Pieces of shredded newspaper, hundreds of fragments of stories and news from local newspapers in different languages are turned into the temporal graphics of a tree’s growth rings.
