I had to think about how to portray this spot for a long time. How can rush hour at a busy intersection surrounded by high noise-reducing earthen berms and a nondescript shopping mall inspire me? I tried lots of vantage points - standing on the corner, standing on the other corners, standing on the median between west-bound lanes and the turn lanes, from the mall parking lot looking down at the road, from the top of the berm on the southeast corner, along the bike path, a view of the mall from the top of the berm .... But then I became fascinated by the patterns of the vehicles entering, crossing, turning, exiting. It seemed as if the intersection was a pile of cars, trucks, buses, all heading in different directions and about to collide.
And then I saw the bike rider braving the onslaught of endless columns of fast moving metal. Here we have all kinds of traffic on the Trans-Can - private vehicles with drivers heading home in the afternoon, commercial ones making late-day deliveries, school buses carrying kids, and a boy on a bike who reminded me that it's people who live in the city and along the road, and people who use the road to go from place to place and city to city. This scene could be anywhere and everywhere, but it's in Calgary that I saw it. And, like the edge of the prairie that Calgary occupies, this is a scene that stretches out horizontally, with folks on the move across it. And I'm having a lot of fun bringing it into the project. Carol
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