While the Low Level Road project nears completion, two new art installations have gone up along the newly constructed roadway and along the Spirit Trail.
The new pieces were chosen through the City of North Vancouver's art selection process that had to hit two marks: engage the travelling public and provide a sense of place.
On the Low Level Road's retaining wall is a more than 130-metre long mural featuring an original design by Musqueam Nation artist Susan Point. The design elements were created including Coast Salish iconography in a storybook form.
The pre-cast concrete panels were created to interact with each other while reflecting the area's past, its ever-changing present and its natural surroundings, according to Port Metro Vancouver. The second art installation draws on Moodyville's past by incorporating repeating shapes of saws in reference to the sawmill that first brought residents and jobs to the area.
Randall Anderson's pre-cast concrete wall panels of his piece Milling Time were installed last April and can be seen on the southern abutment of the Spirit Trail overpass, at the east end of the project.
While two new art installations have gone up, two existing ones are finding new homes along the Spirit Trail.
Peter Pierobon's and Sibeal Foyle's 2002 installation Essential Elements has been refurbished and relocated along the new Spirit Trail, in the 300-block of Esplanade.
The last boulder of Site Memories - Murmuring Crows, by Ingrid Koivukangas, which currently sits beside the trail near the point where it joins East Third Street, is slated to relocate to the new Spirit Trail alignment in Moodyville Park, near the new East Third overpass.
For more information about the project and its construction, visit porttalk.ca/lowlevelroad.
