SInce the 1940's, Vancouver's ubiquitous H-frame power poles have been a gritty downtown fixture. Banged up by garbage and delivery trucks, blackened by the soot of coal furnaces long gone and towered over by scyscrapers they were never meant to service, they stand strong and proud, and interconnected, Soon the ploes and their elevated transformers and their hundreds of kilometers of power lines will be a thing of the past.
Over the next few years, Vancover will lose almost all of them and install services underground. Only a handful will be left stnding, almost exclusuvely in Chinatown and Gastown to preserve the ambiance for back alley movie shoots.
I tried to capture their personality before they were gone, in a series called "Urban Lanscapes". The works were painted between 2003 and 2009.
Over the next few years, Vancover will lose almost all of them and install services underground. Only a handful will be left stnding, almost exclusuvely in Chinatown and Gastown to preserve the ambiance for back alley movie shoots.
I tried to capture their personality before they were gone, in a series called "Urban Lanscapes". The works were painted between 2003 and 2009.
