To find out more about this year’s photo challenge here on Travel Words, please read this post.
This month we will be looking for Green. Green signals new life in spring, fresh green leaves, the shoots of new bulbs emerging from the soil. It is a cool and soothing colour, bringing us moisture and shade. But green doesn’t have to be all about nature.
Bill Reid’s “The Spirit of Haida Gwaii” (Jade Boat)
A 1996 bronze casting can be seen in YVR International. It is intended to represent the aboriginal heritage of the Haida Gwaii region in the Queen Charlotte Islands.
The 13 passengers in the canoe combine human and animal features. Reid’s factious “myth creatures” are drawn from the Haida world.
Eagle bites Grizzly Bear’s paw, Bear faces his human wife and cradles a club and Mouse Woman shelters beneath Raven’s wing.
Other passengers are Bad Bear and Good Bear, Beaver, Dogfish Woman, Eagle, Frog and Wolf whose claws are embedded in Beaver’s back and teeth in Raven’s wing and the human Shaman as the focal point.
Reid said “at least …. the man in the middle seems to have some vision of what’s to come”
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It’s an amazing piece, isn’t it? You could walk around it a time or two. 🙂 🙂 Have a good Sunday!
We headed for a restaurant for a decent meal before the flight home. Those were the days 😍
I remember them… just 🤣💕
Fascinating stuff – thanks Jude. But a green story? I’ll have to think: nothing leaps to mind.
You might need to think laterally for this one. A copper verdigris roof? A bronze statue? Parrot? Ball? A green roof… 😅
So much to do, so little time ….
Well it’s not compulsory 😊
That is some big green machine!
lol I must have been asleep last time I passed through Vancouver airport because I don’t remember seeing it. Not too difficult to achieve as airports and me have a love/hate relationship. I’m either worked up about impending flight or exhausted on arrival from a long flight😊
I’ve put up a green post today …… https://cranethie.com/2021/03/21/green-is-the-colour-for-march/
Thanks for hosting Jude
We tend to get to airports early for a long flight so we can have a relaxing meal and a couple of drinks. That’s probably not going to happen again. Or at least not for a long time!
Rather impressive Jude 🙂 🙂
It is rather. I love the Canadian First Nation stories.
That’s an impressive artwork indeed, Jude. I like it.
Best wishes, Pete. x
fascinating
Those stories are. Like the totem poles.
Here are my green sto,ries: https://suejudd.com/2021/03/21/life-in-colour-green-3/
Thanks Sue!
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