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Destiny Swiderski has always seen the potential hidden down back alleys.
“They’re lost spaces almost,” said the artist and designer, citing a project she once created in a residential neighbourhood in Winnipeg.
“You would see manicured lawns in the front, and nothing in the back. Still, all the activity was in the back. That’s where people really live.”
That’s a big part of the reason why she chose to tuck away her new art installation on the side of a building off 104 Street.
The new work, named Amiskwacîw Wâskâyhkan Ihâtwin, meaning Beaver Hills House in Cree, features 152 copper and black waxwing birds soaring above a mural of lodgepole pine.
Full Story (Metro Edmonton)