Clive’s latest public art project launched this May 2011. Called Compost Happens the project was commissioned by the City of Port Moody.
Clive first created an original painting. The painting was then digitized and blown up to a 13 ft wide x 6.5 ft high a vinyl wrap and adorns one of the city’s recycling trucks. Clive explains his piece:
“Green waste is composted with help from the worms to produce rich red/brown soil for growing flowers. The idea of transformation is reinforced with the life-cycle of the butterfly. Here we see some caterpillars, a chrysalis and butterflies. It was important for me to show the transformation of something ugly to something beautiful, so I used the butterflies as a metaphor.
The image was reversed for the left-hand side of the truck so that from either side it gives the impression that green waste is piled inside the truck, and that as the truck goes by it leaves a trail of butterflies and flowers in its wake. I chose the boardwalk to locate it in Port Moody. I also included a bee as it works in the landscape and bees have become an important aspect of my work.”
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