‘Sacrilegious’ East Van cross?

“The striking quasi-religious Monument for East Vancouver has the best qualities of effective outdoor sculptures: It’s simple but complex, historic but contemporary, irreverent but meaningful,” reports The Vancouver Sun in an article on 19 February.

The cross, by artist Ken Lum, was installed  last month on the top of a hill at Clark Drive and East Sixth as one of the City of Vancouver’s Olympic public art projects.

20 metres high and made of illuminated glass and steel, the cross can be seen from kilometers away.  The sculpture could be looked upon as a defiant gesture of East Side pride, The Vancouver Sun reports.  It seems that already the cross is being interpreted in a variety of ways, and linked to some of the historic aspects of the East Vancouver community.

This thoughtful article canvases the possible interpretations of the artwork, and I have to say the conclusions it comes to are both positive and uplifting.

Read the full story of the East Van cross HERE.

Photo by Gerry Kahrmann, PNG, Vancouver Sun.