Installation

  Concept: In love with Revelstoke’s unique infrastructure and quirky character, Leahey and her team took one of the unique city Bandstand Kiosks and transformed it into an infinity box.  In this installation, the kiosks became an endless 360 degree scene staged in a lit cube of mirrors. A space was provided for viewers to poke their head through the monochromatic shell only to reveal a magical world of colour and reflection. An additional viewpoint on the other side offered space tor a friend to frame up a smart phone camera for the ultimate fantasy portrait. A team of artisans...

   Concept:  Inspired by the infinity rooms of Yayoi Kusama, Leahey takes her unique, monochromatic illustration style into the third dimension by creating an ethereal birch forest in a secret downtown courtyard. The tight alleyway appeared border less with the mirror lined walls, creating a magical nocturnal forest, in an abandoned urban space. A hallway like structure was built, with a roof 20' above, and wrapped in the landscaping cloth. The flooring was a long shag AstroTurf, and trees made on Sono tubes, and embellished with paper mache to create bark texture. Majority of the mirrors were crowd sourced from the...

 THE SNOWGLOBE  Concept: The bandstand is easily one of the town of Revelstoke’s most recognizable features and its spherical shape made it to be the perfect location for this project. Where the umbrella ends, the sides were surrounded in panes of Plexiglass, giving the illusion of a snow globes glass ball. Viewers were able to enter the scene from behind the installation, through purposefully staggered interior features, and once inside, it was snowing! Snow machines from a Vancouver movie production company were used, and artificial snow made from snow fluid, which is essentially soap, raged a blizzard. The staged set was...

THE ZOETROPE  Concept: A zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion. The Zoetrope was built by Rob Buchanan using recycled farming equipment. This installation featured two Zoetrope, ours being powered by a hand crank, and the latter made from Cookies that were sculpted into a cylinder, spun using power from a bicycle, and eventually eaten. Name: Zoetrope Location: Luna Art Fest, Revelstoke, BC. Date: September 23, 2017 Size: 4’H x 1.5’ Diameter Artists:...