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WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016
Freud flower theory wilts at council
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Public art debate hardly restful or unemotional Graeme Wood
Staff Reporter gwood@richmond-news.com
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n World Financial Group hosted the Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada’s fundraising barbeque at King George Park where little Lavender Santiago (above) smiles for the camera while Keanna Shahbazi talks to a new friend. These girls are not part of the program but were there Saturday afternoon with their parents to help support children with life-threatening or serious neurological disorders. See more pictures on page 19. Photos by Gord Goble Special to the News
igmund Freud once said, “Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” Clearly, Freud never sat in on a Richmond city council debate on public art, including the current one which is all about flowers. At Monday’s council meeting, Coun. Harold Steves, chair of the city’s parks and recreation committee, derided yet another developerfunded public art proposal, while calling on the city to put local artists first. At issue this time is a $437,500 public art piece named Flower Tree, by South Korean artist Choi Jeong Hwa, being proposed by Richmond’s public art planner Eric Fiss for the planned Hollybridge Way Plaza along the Fraser River’s middle arm. The fibre-reinforced plastic flowers would sit perched on top of a nine metre steel frame that resembles a stump. “In my opinion, this is ‘plump’ art, not real art. It really bothers me that a big plastic ball with colourful stuff in it is going to be worth darn near a half million dollars. That’s going to be there forever as art in a very public place,” said Steves. “I’d much sooner see art like Fisherman’s Needle. That’s done by local artists and it’s art that has meaning — meaning to the community, whether it’s an event or an emotional thing or whatever,” he added, before council voted the proposal down in a 6-3 decision. Steves has questioned the public art process before, stating “we should disband the civic art fund and put it into affordable housing.” Under existing city policy, developers are asked to donate $0.60 per square foot of building space in rezoned developments, for public art.
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