A conceptual drawing for the new memorial to honour Port Coquitlam's favourite son at BC Place was unveiled yesterday (Tuesday).
The artwork by internationally famous author and visual artist Douglas Coupland will feature a series of four bronze sculptures to replicate Terry Fox's running style along his Marathon of Hope; the work will replace the controversial gateway at Terry Fox Plaza and is expected to be ready this fall, in time for the reopening of BC Place.
In his artist's statement, Coupland, author of Generation X as well a book about Fox called Terry, wrote that he wanted the statues to represent Fox's historic journey - its past, present and future.
"I want people in a thousand years to look at them and wonder why Terry had to have an artificial leg," he wrote. "I want them to be able to reconstruct the way Terry ran. I want them to wonder why he's heading west and I want them to wonder why his stature grows and grows the further along he walks."
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