In 2007 , to commemorate the 40^th anniversary of Expo 67 I made this light sculpture called The Anniversary Light / Lumière d'anniversaire. I used recovered materials from an actual Expo 67 sculpture. In 1967, Quebec artist Jean Cartier’s piece La Giboulée/Sudden Shower was installed at Expo 67. As pictured below, you can see how it looked during Expo 67, with large glass disks atop the spires from which water flowed. Sadly, however, in the 40+ years since Expo 67, the Cartier sculpture is now nothing more than a ruin. After being given permission by the current owners of the property on which the sculpture sits, I retrieved several pieces of the broken glass discs which were buried in the dirt that had built up in the saucer-like base. It was these glass pieces, once cleaned and polished, that became the basic components of the Anniversary Light / Lumière d'anniversaire.  The light piece is also finished inauthentic pre-ban Brazilian rosewood which was contemporary to the original sculpture.

Having been been worn smooth by decades of weather and dirt each glass remnant of the orginal Cartier sculture possesses a unique, light-catching quality that his light piece captres.

Dimensions: 18 inches in length, 2 inches high (without the glass pieces) and 3 inches deep.

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