Location
Rosemary Brown Arena, Burnaby BC
Project Team
Jill Anholt, Zoë Jackson, George Third and Sons (fabricator), Ellie Niakan (lighting designer)
Status
Completed Spring 2024
Gliding Edge takes inspiration from the persistence and determination required to learn the challenging skill of ice skating, as well as the incredible sensation of weightlessness, fluidity and dynamism that is experienced once this skill is mastered. The work is created from singular metal blade-like forms that begin at the ground: wobbling, tilting and crossing one another before they gradually coalesce into a singular dynamic fluid sculptural form. At night, LED lights located above the artwork create shadows on the ground, evocative of the temporal carvings of skate blade patterns in the ice.