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Painter's "garish" depictions of Vancouver real estate moguls spark an important conversation

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series of 13 unflattering paintings of Vancouver real estate influencers and moguls are now on display at a small gallery space on Main Street at Broadway, and aside from presenting an interesting take on the state of this city, they've also got a pricing model which might raise some eyebrows.

Christopher Brayshaw owns and operates Pulp Fiction Books, next door to the CSA Space gallery that he also runs, along with partners Adam Harrison and Steven Tong. We stand in the space at 2414 Main Street as he gives me a basic rundown of the latest exhibition on display painter Rowan Melling's Boss Bodies - which he co-curated.

I ask Brayshaw what the prices are and he asks "Well, are you one

of the subjects?" and I tell him no, after a quick glance around the room to make sure that I'm not. He then lets me know that the price is $1,200 per painting, but if the subjects want to buy them they'll have to pay what he essentially thinks is their fair share.

Brayshaw notes that he's happy to negotiate with the subjects on pricing, but the selling price for them will be scaled from $1,200 multiplied by the difference between a living wage in Vancouver, and the average wage of a CEO. So they don't pay market value, it's a sort of reverse "pay what you can" model for those who can afford more.

The wage-gap pricing is as much of a statement as the work itself, which offers "garish" depictions of people who, an accompanying

essay states, are protected by the media here, which "deflect" away from the issue of the causes of the increase in real estate prices.

Some of the subjects are developers like Ian Gillespie and Michael Audain, some are high profile real estate owners like Chip Wilson, and a few are connected more loosely, as founders of PR companies and others that work with developers.

The above-mentioned accompanying essay is written

by Dan Adleman, and it calls out a number of Vancouver-based news media outlets directly Vancouver Is Awesome included - expressing the opinion that they (we) are "developer-funded" and that we work to protect the mostly-rich-and-somewhatfamous subjects of the artwork as their cronies, and cronies of

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say about it [the exhibition]... That’s because the exhibition, in its own modest way, challenges a fantasy system to which so many of us remain indentured."

From the privileged place where I sit (as the Publisher and Editorin-Chief of V.I.A.) the issue with the "fantasy system" seems like it might be on both sides. Perhaps we don't give people a clear enough window into our businesses, so they begin to fantasize about what it actually looks like in here, and how we operate. Looking at V.I.A.'s financial statements (which it's my job to regularly keep an eye on), real estate ads make up less than 1% of our total revenue. I can't speak for other outlets, but we write news where there is news, and we don't work to protect anyone who pays us to place ads.

Again, from where I sit I can see that one reason why the local media might not "have much to say" about this show is that they hadn't heard about it. I only learned of it when I noticed a poster for it on the wall of Pulp Fiction Books, which I saw in an unrelated tweet that they retweeted.

I found it myself, randomly on Twitter.

Our outlet never received a press release or an invitation to the show,

and I initially just wanted to cover it as a challenge, because they said we wouldn't.

Another reason the local media won't have much to say about it is that there are very few full-time arts reporters anymore. The Globe and Mail's Marsha Lederman is the only one I know of. We don't ever review art shows in the way I'm doing here, because people don't generally read them on our website I've made an exception partly because I think this subject is worthy of exploring.

Perhaps it's time for a more open conversation about the housing crisis in this city, between the media and residents. It's an issue that we and other outlets cover daily, but we're still somehow seen as blame-worthy for its existence by some.

And while I don't agree with the artist and essay-writer's take that the subjects of this art show are hideous monsters to be reviled, we likely have a lot more in common than they might think.

For those looking looki k ng to view the work themselves and read the entire essay, I would highly encourage you to do so.

The gallery is located at 2414 Main Street, and it's open whenever Pulp Fiction Books is. Simply ask for the key to the space at the bookstore, leave your driver's license, and you can check it out for yourself.

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It’s why a promising prospect in Jared McCann, who made the Canucks as a 19-year-old, was traded for Erik Gudbranson just one in a long list of terrible defencemen Benning has acquired. It’s why Benning repeatedly failed to trade away veteran players for draft picks and prospects, waiting far too long to realize when a season was a lost cause.

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Canucks captain Bo Horvat has made the playoffs just twice in his seven-year career.

In his second stint in the playoffs, he scored 10 goals in 17 games, providing his bonafides as a big-game player, but the team didn’t build on that all-too-brief success. Now his eighth year looks to be wasted again.

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“I don’t know how I walk into the room and tell these guys, ‘Strip it down.’ I’m not sure it’s fair to these guys,” said the then-president of hockey operations Trevor Linden when talking about the team continuing to push for short-term success instead of being willing to rebuild. But if the Canucks had instead committed to a rebuild after their disappointing firstround exit from the playoffs in 2015, they could have been back in the playoff race before the Sedins retired.

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"I've always noticed these beautiful pools of leaves under trees before wind comes through," he says, "almost like a colour shadow of the tree. They invited some sort of design."

He was, in part, inspired by zen gardens and the patterns that are created in the little, stony landscapes. Another piece is the temporary nature of the designs.

"It's important that it's ephemeral," he says. "I'm a huge fan of ephemeral art, from seasonal things like sandcastles, snowmen, jacko-lanterns."

The interaction of the creator with the natural world as it's in flux is a big part of the leafy designs. By the time he's done a design it may already be getting destroyed a little, as the wind starts moving leaves about. Maybe it'll last a little longer; it depends on the environment.

This year's season is almost over, he says, though it wasn't as good as 2020. The weather put a literal damper on things. However, he's keeping his eye out for a little longer after having a good experience with a gingko tree recently, that was still shedding some leaves.

He likes looking for a couple of essential things. One is a good viewing location, so that people can see the design properly.

That either means the piece needs to be on a slope or there needs to be a vantage point for people to look down on the (essentially) 2D

piece of work.

The other important factor is contrast. Raking up brown leaves on brown dirt doesn't make a very good design, but bright red on deep green grass catches eyes.

How many leaves are around is also important.

Too many and he's making big lumps. Too small and it doesn't really work.

Next year he intends on continuing his art, with Vancouver parks as his

template. Typically he hits areas in English Bay, Stanley Park, and south of False Creek, so it might be worth keeping an eye out in 11 months. Next year might bring a new twist; he's considering leaving a rake at a site after he's started a design.

"Then I can come back later to see what became of it," he says. "So people can either choose to add to it or help maintain it."

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t's only at a specific time of year you'll see the foliage-based work of Nik Rust.

The local designer is behind some of the unique, intricate designs left in some of Vancouver's parks and public areas this past fall. Going by the handle @ rakemob on Instagram, he raked leaves into simple but precise circles around the trees they fell from, creating patterns of concentric circles like ripples of water or sound waves emanating from deciduous trunks.

"The idea has been bouncing around in my head for at least a decade," he tells Vancouver Is Awesome.

"Falls would come and go and I wouldn't get to it."

But, like many people, the parks were the place to be with the pandemic in play in 2020, and he finally put rake to leaf and got to work.

"Everything was kind of different as far as the day-today," he says. "Parks were being used in ways they never had before."

He goes out early to create his art, so as people head out at the start of their day the designs are already in place, having appeared as if out of nowhere. While the majority of people who see his art have no idea how it got there, some early risers do catch him.

"Tons of people come up and approach me," Rust says.

"Some people are baffled, and want to know why it's happening, and some people are super stoked."

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to the LGBTQ2S+ community and its allies for help raising the $7,000 needed to refurbish the bench and plaque.

Vancouver-West End MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert is glad the call has gone out to maintain the memorial.

“It’s a very important place for us to go and remember him and the acts of hate over many years,” Chandra Herbert said.

Webster’s attackers used pool cues, a golf club and baseball bats when they attacked him, the court heard. They claimed they were looking for “peeping toms.”

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He died in a friend’s arms at the scene shortly after.

Now, an appeal has gone out to refurbish a bench and plaque, raised in Webster’s memory near Second Beach.

The monuments, located at the intersection of two paths, also serve as a reminder of the violent homophobia that is not unknown in the Lower Mainland.

A year after the killing, a memorial calendar was published to raise funds for the bench. Webster, a noted photographer, took most of the images in the calendar.

— naked, except for his shoes. They pursued him through the park to his car.

Webster fell to the ground and the beating continued, the court was told at trial.

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A fourth male, Danny Rao, was acquitted in adult court on Feb 8, 2005, the same day Cran was convicted. Following his acquittal, he began screaming, “f**k you” at court spectators.

In one of the youth’s cases, however, the judge added a hate motivation designation to the teen’s sentence, although the prosecutor had chosen not to pursue it as a hate-motivated crime.

“I fail to see why this cannot be described as a gaybashing,” Judge Valmond Romilly ruled, rejecting the youth’s claim that his actions were not motivated by a hatred of gays.

Romilly said it was hard to believe that the youth could be “so naive that [he] did not notice this area was frequented by gays.”

The attack horrified the city’s LGBTQ2S+ community, which waited for months as police worked to get a break in the case.

When it came time for BC Supreme Court Justice Mary Humphries to sentence Cran, she called the attack random, cowardly and terrifying.

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“He must pay for this crime,” Humphries said.

The day after Webster’s death, Murray Bilida organized a march in the West End. Hundreds of people marched through downtown streets to the site of Webster’s death.

Other marches and vigils followed. A community meeting on how to combat homophobia was also held at a Davie Street hotel.

The funds for the memorial must be raised by the end of December 2021. A donation site has been set up online at http://donate.vancouver.ca/ webster/

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The Park Board released a short video last week of Chum salmon spawning in Spanish Banks Creek, which was daylighted in 2000.

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diverted into culverts are exposed and rehabilitated. In East Vancouver, Still Creek on Grandview was once one of the most polluted creeks in the city before a few different groups got together and

daylighted portions of it.

Salmon have been returning to it to spawn since 2012.

But the fish are not appearing magically on their own. Each year salmon fry are raised by children in

the DFO's Salmonids in the Classroom program.

Children in Vancouver essentially adopt a batch of fertilized salmon eggs that live in a temperaturecontrolled aquarium in their classrooms. When they hatch, the kids feed the fish every day, then release them into creeks. These releases generally take place in April and May. The salmon will spend a period of time in the creeks before making their way out into the ocean. Four years later, they return to where CONTINUE ON PAGE 13

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The incident was caught on video by Zachary Ratcliffe when he was out for a walk near the popular beach and spotted the body. In the footage he notes the two Vancouver Police Department (VPD) officers near the body. Police stated at the time they were waiting for the coroner to arrive.

The video shows one officer walking near the body and posing for a photo.

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Wiebe says that Canyon Creek, which is near Spanish Banks Creek, will begin getting daylighted soon.

Tatlow Creek in Kitsilano should see construction

starting in 2022. A longerterm project is China Creek, just south of Science World.

The councillor also notes that "Kinross Creek and Vivian in East Fraser Lands are also an opportunity."

Nature photographer and videographer Fernando Lessa shot the video of the salmon for the Park Board.

He tells V.I.A. that there's no use in going to try to see

them this year, as raccoons have already "done a pretty good job" of eating all of the fish, which would have likely already spawned and were holding in the river, where they end their own life cycle.

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