Squamish Street Banners
Artist:
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The Blue Trees was a Vancouver Biennale initiative launched during the 2009 – 2011 exhibition that has gone on to become an international award-winning public-art installation created in over 14 cities across the world. This art installation brings environmental consciousness and social action together through community participation. Pigmenting trees blue, a colour not naturally associated with trees, temporarily transforms a familiar urban landscape. Trees are largely invisible in our daily lives, and the blue colour is a means of altering perception, a powerful stimulant used to raise social consciousness about the role of trees as the lungs of the world.
These two separate installations were created with the assistance of Coast Mountain Academy students and volunteers from Quest University and the local community.”
These two separate installations were created with the assistance of Coast Mountain Academy students and volunteers from Quest University and the local community.
