North Vancouver: The power of art
The metal handrail gleams in the foreground — a skateboarder’s dream.
On either side are flanks of staircases. Beyond them are more edges — planter frames and street curbs. But it’s all empty.
Spotless too. Nowhere in the picture are there the dark lines of grind marks — the telltale sign of conquered tricks and great rides.
“Did you notice the little metal ridges,” Bill MacDonald says, pointing at the small strips placed on the rail.
The photo is a skateboard protest piece, the managing director of Artists for Kids Trust says.
It’s taken in a style that one might find in the glossy pages of a skateboard magazine, except there’s no gravity-defiant skateboarder in the shot.
Windsor secondary graduate Jeremy Shaw took the photo when Vancouver started skateboard-proofing the city, MacDonald continues.
“He is sort of the defender of youth,” he says of Shaw’s artwork.
He’s also one of 20 artists featured in the trust’s Artists for Kids (AfK) Alumni All Stars exhibit, a show marking the program’s 20th anniversary.
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