Bridge (Wooden Arch), 2006

Installation (wood, rope)

Bridge is a functioning sculptural work reaching approximately four stories high and spanning thirty-seven-feet across and connects two residential properties. The bridge arches across the property line from the upper balcony of one home up and over the roof of the neighbouring house, landing on its upper back veranda.  Access to the bridge was offered twenty-four hours a day to visitors during the six-week period of the exhibition until the bridge was dismantled.

At first glance, Bridge appears to be a friendly gesture, a joining of two (private) properties in a Vancouver neighbourhood known for strong community involvement. However, after sustained viewing, Bridge emerges as a discrete work of art, and in doing so provides a critique of the right-angularity of common urban residential construction.

This work was featured in the March 2007 issue of Canadian Art.


Short archive video of the installation.