Over the last couple of months I've noticed a number of sculptures being installed around the parks near my home. Over the last few years sculptures have popped up. Each year they attract more attention and funding and last year it morphed into the Vancouver Sculpture Biennale. Lucky for me four of the sculptures are only minutes away on the nearby beaches. I've just been waiting for the city to finish installing them and some nice weather to go take some photo's.

and guess what?

According to the weather this whole week was suppose to be a cold rainy, snowy mess, but somehow we lucked out and today turned out to be quite nice. So I decide to go for a walk with my camera.

I started at Sunset Beach to look at a piece by the artist Benar Venet titled "217.5 Arc x 13"

Sitting here on the beach it looks like something that was washed up in a storm.

Next up the beach is a piece by the German artist Markus Schaller called Figure in Circle,

There's three of them between Sunset Beach and English Bay I didn't even realize they were figures till I looked up the title. His work is in the Venice Biennale.

There's a little patch of grass at the foot of Davie and Denman which I didn't even know had a name but apparently it's called Morton Triangle. Here sits a sculpture by Albert Paley

The piece is called "Portal"

The last work on my afternoon walk is by Dennis Oppenheim called "Engagement Rings".

Unfortunately it's still under construction. It's not really one of my favorite pieces either which is a shame because I really like his work. Luckily there is another one of his pieces installed at Coal Harbour and on the next nice day I'm going to head over there to take a look.

The sculptures are going to be up till 2007 so there's plenty of time to check out everything, For more info check out the site for the Vancouver Scuplture Biennale