Category: light sculpture

Skate Path Lanterns

Skate Path Lanterns is a fun project I’ve been working on since 2016, when Edmonton Parks approached me to develop some work for their new Freezeway/IceWay alternative skating paths. They had some room to run ice trails through trees and around a park, so they wanted some artistic lighting in the darker areas. The first couple years I used my regular hanging lanterns, and then some alternate styles. For the 3rd year I believe I developed a new post mount lantern that has become my go-to for this application.

There are now Skate Path Lantern sets in Edmonton, Lacombe, Strathcona County, and St. Albert, all in Alberta, Canada. Each one has a different custom design pattern, often a snowflake related to their community design.

It’s been great to see this grow. I would love to see this project encourage other forest skating paths around the places that have snow. I can support this as an artist or work with other artists as a consultant and platform supplier.

Flying Canoe Volant 2023

2022-2023 was an exciting winter for me, a lot of events happening almost on top of each other. This edition of Flying Canoe Volant brought me to some new collaborations, and the realization of some long held dreams.

The Airship was a big project, a collab with GABS, another local Edmonton light based artist allowed me to work on a dreamed of upgrade to my Canoe Chandeliers. Last year after the event my brother Robin and I were looking at all the things we’d set up. That may have been his first time looking at everything set up in a while, so he was pretty excited about some of the work. We came up with the idea of an Airship Canoe, with flapping paddles for propulsion and flame (effect bulbs) for lift. Later that year I talked to GABS about collaborating on a crew, and she developed an amazing soft sculpture cast of birds and rodents. Apparently they were not on good terms with each other, so the title of the installation is “Squabbles” and features captured birds on a Squirrel lead ship. The birds may have been accused of stealing the squirrels nuts, but I imagine they would have an alternate explaination.

I also put together a new set of fabric lanterns, now called the Fab4 (cause there are 4 of them) and got to involve Marissa Mars in painting them. She came in for a day and sprayed the set with my stencils- I love seeing other artists us my stencil set because it always turns out so different than what I do with them.

I also got to make some cut up canoe installations. This is part of a bigger project that I hope to see develop, but that’s top secret. Anyway, first step has happened and they were super fun.

MoonDrops

MoonDrops is a new lantern style that I was inspired to create sitting in the hottub at Jasper Park Lodge. I’d been invited out to look at setting an installation up for them. That project got bounced from covid related changes, but the artwork more importantly got made. It was an adventure in curved surface modeling, not exactly what the tools I was using were best at, but some extra time and I managed to get a buildable system out of my dreams.

MoonDrops are made from aluminum, one of the more easily recyclable mediums, and post mount on a 2.5″ square tube. I have a set for event installation, and a couple available for sale. These lanterns were built at the end of 2021, and have now shown at a dozen events across Alberta and BC. You can check my store for the retail listing, but contact me directly for a larger scale permanent installation.

Light The Night CurrieYYC

The neighborhood of Curry in Calgary AB is currently in transition from a Canadian Forces base to a new residential development. Canada Lands Corporation was celebrating a big milestone in reopening a greenspace that had been fenced off for a year for a re-naturalization process, and wanted to put together a light based winter event to commemorate the occasion.

They hired me to co-ordinate a full site lighting project and work with Adrian Stimson -a member of the local Siksika Nation, artist, and veteran. I built a few new works for the event and did the technical side of 2 collaborative new works with Adrian. The lit up paintings in the gallery are Adrian’s work.

The installation was up from January 16 to March 22 2023.

Flying Canoë Volant 2016

Every first weekend of February, in my hometown of Edmonton, we have this amazing weekend festival in the woods of Mill Creek Ravine. This is one of my favourite places in the city, and it is such an honour to be trusted with lighting it up for tens of thousands of people to explore.

This is a short video from Explore Edmonton that highlights a lot of what our event is all about.
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2016 Lantern Craft! Workshop and Parade

In March 2016, I was funded by Make Something Edmonton’s Winter Project Accelerator Grant to run a lantern craft workshop and parade. It allowed me to offer a free workshop with a fairly fancy set of materials, so I was quite excited about that.

The Lantern project was based on twine, twigs (branches) tissue and twinkle lights, and has a diverse set of possibilities within a fairly unified colour scheme.

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U of A Alumni Association, Green and Glow winterfest 2015

laser cut lanterns, green and gold for the University of Alberta Alumni Assn's 100th anniversary
one hundred lanterns for one hundred years

Jan, 2015.  The University of Alberta’s Alumni Association turns 100 this year, one hundred years after the first class graduated.  I got a call to imagine something special for their Winter Event.  This became one of the best University events I’ve been to, and we produced a genuinely magical moment.

Had some deeper learning moments about high speed production of large numbers of objects… 100 lanterns is quite a lot of lanterns. Even when you have a cnc machine to laser cut your parts. The opposite side of that learning is that 100 lanterns is a good number of lanterns to have a parade with. Especially when they each put out 2 watts worth of coloured LED light. At the last minute I decided to walk in the parade with the prototype lanterns, and it induced a pleasantly expansive feeling

The Association produced a great video, and an image gallery follows below.
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Flying Canoe Volant 2015

coat of arms- canoe with crossed paddles and wings, moon over with crown of stars, snowflakes beneath
new design for the flying canoe volant

The Mill Creek Adventure this year was a major stretch for me.  Scheduled for a week after my other biggest winter festival commission, I had to juggle 5 workshops, up to 10 workers, a whole class of artists,  dozens of projects, and hundreds of details.  Sometimes I felt like I was driving between sites for a month.  But in the end, it worked out.  and the last two days of installation were surprisingly easy.  Delegation to competent staff pays off… except in the visceral sense of feeling like I’m focused on making art.  I suppose that’s what large scale art management is about.

In the chaos, I managed to bring 3 new major lanterns to the event, and a much deeper colour palette to my older lantern work.  New LED colours… as fun as christmas for me!
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This gallery is from Paula Kirman; you can find her edmonton events photography on flicker


New lanterns!

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New may be an exaggeration in this particular case, I’ve had this style for several years now.  But I did do a recent run of new cuts and added some fresh LED options to the colour palette. You can find many of these on my ETSY store, which you can access from the menu above.

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wood cut lantern, with LED lights, projecting a bass cleft heart with crossed f holes

wood cut lantern in new colours- pink, blue, green.
wood cut lantern in new colours- pink, blue, green.

Winter Light 2012: Mill Creek Adventure Walk

People passing thru the Gate of Winter Light
January 27 and 28, 2012, myself and the rest of the Winter Light team launched an ambitious project; to do more with less at our now hopefully annual Mill Creek Adventure Walk. The story this year was seeded by Carol and Bill, and told the tale of an Eager Beaver’s attempt to build a Lodge big enough to Block Out the Stars.

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