A well-known artist who co-designed the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic medals is now crafting a public art piece for Port Coquitlam's 100th year.
Corrine Hunt will be shaping wood from a 100-year-old silver maple tree - chopped from a city property at Pitt River Road and Shaughnessy Street - to create the artwork that will be placed in the city hall lobby.
And Hunt will be including the words gathered from a workshop last Thursday to describe what the city is all about. Those words will be cut into 10 panels of steel, copper and glass.
Hunt said the community group members who attended last week's session at the Leigh Square Community Arts Village "reinforced my ideas about what there is in the environment," she said.
Earlier, she had looked online for her research, which showed bears, salmon and heron were predominant in the city. As well, Hunt said she will be including the word "welcome" in the various languages spoken in Port Coquitlam to show the diversity of the community.
Hunt said she decided to apply for the project - her first city commission - "because I liked the idea of working on a tree and telling a story."
Her work is due to be unveiled next month.
