This month, a custom suspended Illuminated Cording sculpture will be installed in a private residence. Here is a sneak preview of this bespoke lighting installation.
The 20th annual B.C. Achievement Foundation, Sam Carter Award in Applied Art + Design was celebrated with an award presentation and reception on November 21, 2024. This year, Brent Comber was chosen by an independent jury of experts, including industry leaders from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Western Living magazine, and past award recipients, to receive the highly coveted Award of Distinction. This award celebrates talented British Columbians who create exceptional functional art and design, from furniture and fashion to ceramics and jewelry, impacting our daily lives and strengthening the province’s creative economy.
September 26 – 29th, 2024 The Interior Design Show: Vancouver
“Learning to Be”, highlights 3 trees salvaged from the Urban Landscape, upended and slightly animated to create a sense of movement and raise the possibility that a plant can transform into something completely different.
We are only now beginning to learn about the intricacies of trees. Emerging evidence demonstrates that trees exhibit remarkable social, cognitive, and communicative abilities, operating as highly sophisticated, communal, and interdependent organisms within their own species.
These entities build their communities through information sharing, akin to the collective intelligence of an insect colony – a process that occurs at a pace imperceptible to the human senses.
They grow, however, very slowly with many species outliving our own. We marvel at the beauty of trees but by and large, take them for granted. This gave me the idea of animating these neglected orphans from residential properties into creatures of superior beings. By inverting the tree so the branches become legs, they are free to roam the exhibition making friends and otherworldly connections.
Meet our 3 Creatures:
Bjorn: is the burly protector of the group. His Norse name meaning ‘bear’ is bestowed upon those who embody strength, courage, and the ferocity to protect their family.
Seti: is the interpreter and communicator of this group and she uses her large dish to listen and translate information between trees and humans.
Freya: is welcoming and the first one who will wave at you, beckoning you to come over for a chat. She is named after the Norse goddess of love, beauty, and fertility.
