In the Land of the Golden Stump

In 1991, novelist Douglas Coupland published a book called Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, which helped popularize the Gen-X term that refers to the sandwich generation between baby boomers and millennials.

I was later surprised to learn that Coupland was also an artist who has in fact produced some well known eye-catching designs, including one that consisted of painting an entire building in colourful geometric shapes.

I came across another one of his works located near a Skytrain station. It is aptly called the Golden Tree.

The way I understand it, the Golden Tree mirrors another famous landmark called the Hollow Tree in Stanley Park. That tree is the shell of a Western red cedar that began its journey of growth 800 years ago, but is now just a hollowed out wooden stump.

As far as the deeper meaning of the art, that I'm not sure about. I read references to the tree representing the evolving city, and the natural environment that we inhabit, but I better not get any deeper than that, or I might end up summoning the tree elves.

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