2015 / Wild Rose with Osvaldo Yero / Quarters Armature, Edmonton, AB / Public Art Commission
This stainless steel sculpture is based on two symbols that represent Alberta – the wild rose and the Lodgepole pine. Eighteen feet in height, Wild Rose appears to be an over-sized flower. Up close, the detail of the original materials used to make the sculpture reveal itself. The stem is a weathered Lodgepole pine tree stripped of its branches and bark. On its upper reaches, a piece of cloth, pierced by the pole, billows with the wind, taking on the appearance of an abstract flower. The artists intended Wild Rose to stand as a contemporary and symbolic marker of belonging in a landscape imbued with Indigenous history, and rich with a diversity of natural resources.
Edmonton Arts Council, Wild Rose, City of Edmonton Public Art Collection, website:http://www.arttouryeg.ca/20-rebecca-belmore-osvaldo-yero/, 2015