KAMLOOPS — Piece by piece, the first section of downtown’s latest public art installment is being put together at the Lansdowne Parkade.
Local artist, Bill Frymire was commissioned to designed the mosaic, titled Community Confluence.
The finished piece will be the city’s largest public art display, and Frymire says the project features 20 different colours of aluminum tiles in three different shapes.
“The ones that make up the river are kinetic so they kind of move in the wind,” he says. “They’re a bit shiny and kind of look like the water.”
More than 80,000 tiles are included in the display, and the detailed placement of each is no quick job.
“It’s a bit of a management thing to try and keep it all straight. And the other thing is we’re doing half of it from the inside,” he explains. “So those ones are all printed backwards because it looks different from the inside than from the outside. So there’s a lot to keep track of.”
With about 20 people working on the piece, Frymire says if all goes well, they should be done by July.
The art piece is just one part of the larger Lansdowne Street Improvement Project, with the combined cost estimated around $1.4 million.
