Lantern Installation Map and Artists

Rabbits Shine Too

Menya Zhao

“This is a mythical rabbit, with flying ears, flowing through. She likes to hide behind the trees in the forest and listen to storytelling from mushrooms, fish, and trees.”

Instagram: @mengyazhaoo

Website: https://mengyazhao.com/ 

Cactus Garden

August Bramhoff

“This garden was created out of recycled plastic. I was so happy that I got an opportunity to make something people could enjoy out of what would have ended up in a landfill or in the ocean. I’d like to thank the Still Moon Arts Society for letting me participate, as well as the awesome volunteers who helped me with the set up.”

Website: http://augustbramhoff.com

Beaver Beavering

Willoughby Arevalo

 “Beaver Beavering is a tribute to the beavers who once flourished throughout the Still Creek Watershed, engineering the ecosystem by building wetland habitat for themselves and a myriad of other species, and provided food, fur and carving tools (teeth) to the Coast Salish Peoples. While they are still present and active lower down in the watershed (i.e. Burnaby Lake), I dream of re-beavering the watershed.”

Website: mycelialconnections.net & artandfungi.org

Hidden Colours of

Trout Lake

Bea Miller

 “The three silk banners displayed at the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival were from a set of four, created by the artist in collaboration with plants that grow in a Pacific Northwest wetland environment like Trout Lake or Still Creek. Each banner was first mordanted with alum, then soaked in a pot of dye made from one plant, and finally bundled and steamed with another complimentary plant to make a print. All plants were grown or ethically wildcrafted by the artist – this means that the artist has a prior relationship with the plant and the patch she gathers from, leaves lots for other creatures, and practices deep respect and gratitude for the gifts of the plant.”

Instagram: @beespoke.textiles 

Buildings of Chinatown

Catherine Shapiro

 “No Heritage, No Soul”.

Transition Arch

Isaac Rufus Rosen-Purcell

“I feel as if I and the world are going through many transitions and the lantern walk wanted a transition back to the street, thus I made this.”

Website: https://isaacrufus.com/

Zen Yeovil lanterns

Andrew Tuline

“These lanterns combine natural materials such as grapevines and bamboo with technology in order to provide a wide range of visuals. From a static warm white, to flickering flames and rainbows, open source software has been used to create magical effects to bring these lanterns to life.”

Website: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewTuline 

Swimming Snake

Pénélope de Turenne

“This paper snake floats on the water, like a shed skin abandonned on a substitute skeleton. The snake sheds its skin to keep growing, the trees become nurse logs when they rot, the salmon spawns and dies. Let’s celebrate life and death in the ravine.” 

Canadian Bottleweed

Garvin Chinnia

 “Canadian Bottleweed is a floating LED light installation using collected bottles as floatation on Still Creek, in an attempt to bring attention to both aquatic ecology via the use of erstwhile waste products from our material culture.”

Website: www.garvinchinnia.ca

Instagram: @chinniart

Portrait of A Soul

Silouan Hainsworth

 “My piece is primarily about connecting our humanity with our divinity. I like to mix surrealism, symbolism and imagery from traditional iconography. It’s about the intersection of sorrow and joy. Of weightlessness and being tethered. Of magic and tender humanity.”

Instagram: @silouanarts

Going Home

Yoko Tomita

“Where is our home ground to nest?”

Instagram: http://yokosphoto.blogspot.com

Mycelium Movement (Spore Drive) 

Kathryn Wadel

“Mycelium Movement (Spore Drive) is a site-specific light sculpture that represents the importance of fungi species for the sustainability of life on earth”

Photo Credits: Ben Faulkner

Website: https://www.kathrynwadel.com/

Instagram:@katwadel 

Robin in the ‘Hood

Naomi Singer

Robin in the ‘Hood was a beautiful installation at the Streamside Installation this year.

Website: http://mail.secretlantern.org/

Tea Bag Tea Set

Carmen Rosen

“I drink a lot of tea. Over several years I saved the bags from each cup of tea, dried them, emptied out the tea leaves, and used them to paper my giant tea bag tea set. It is the legacy of many hundreds of real cups of tea. Each teabag is the trace of a conversation with a friend, a break from work, or a moment of contemplation that now glows in the night”.

UNIVERSAL ADAPTER FOR THE “NEW” MILLENNIUM

Bryce Larkin

Universal Adapter For The “New” Millennium was an innovative work of art at the Streamside Installation this year.

Trash Flowers

Robin Lough

Using plastic waste from streams, Robin created something that was once trash into beautiful flowers. 

Jar Lantern River

Still Moon Arts

Each year community members and Windermere Leadership students create jar lanterns for the festival. These were formed into a river of light by Clara Chisholm and volunteers. The salmon lanterns were created by community members facilitated by artist Robi Smith.

The Many Faces of Ted Tweetie

Carmen Rosen and Willoughby Arevalo

Part of a larger project – Fruiting Bodies, this installation was inspired by a photo of the legendary Renfrew Ravine squatter named Ted Tweetie.

Wolves

Ben Rosen-Purcell

Wolves was a beautiful installation at the Streamside Installation this year.

Silk Cathedral

Carmen Rosen, Simon Purcell, Susan Berganzi

“Strings” was a performance piece I created in 1989-90 in collaboration with Simon Purcell, Susan Berganzi, DB Boyko, and Mark Parlett. The performance featured dance, extended vocal technique and a 3-tiered Marionette where a stilt performer manipulated a dancer like a puppet, and the dancer in turn manipulated a 2/3 lived sized papier mache puppet. The puppet was inspired by the Japanese Bunraku puppet theatre tradition where the puppeteers are visible to the audience. The silk cathedral was part of the stilt performer costume that opened to become a backdrop and to reveal the dancer inside. The dancer’s costume opened in turn to reveal the puppet. The silk cathedral was designed and created by Simon Purcell and Susan Berganzi. I painted the silk cathedral panels with images of stained glass from my favourite medieval churches – Chartres, Reims, Bourges and others.” (supported by Canada Council) 

Giant Silk Jellyfish

Carmen Rosen and Renfrew-Collingwood Seniors Centre

“For seven years I was Artist in Residence at Renfrew-Collingwood Seniors’ Centre as part of the Arts Health and Seniors program supported by the Vancouver Parks Board and Vancouver Costal Health. I met weekly with a group of seniors and we explored different themes and art techniques each year. In 2009, the year we made the jellyfish, we were exploring our relationship to water, our stories about water, and learning silk painting techniques. In addition to other silk painting art projects, the women in the program painted all the panels for the silk jellyfish. They were much better at crochet than I was, and they took the lead on crocheting the many vary-coloured tendrils of the three giant jellyfish”.

Nest: Spaced Out

Chitha Manoranjan and Henry Lau

“Setting up the Nest was both a stark reminder of the weight of the year, as well as an escape from it. For a few hours, we were able to gratefully be whisked away into the clockwork of Moon Fest, amidst a quiet and vacuous ravine. We thought a lot about ‘place’ as we initially built the Nest, and this year, we thought a lot about the nests we find ourselves in as we got through everything the year threw at us”.

Origami Prayer Boats
For The Water

Carmen Rosen with Community Contributions

“I wanted people to be able write their Prayers for the Water on paper and then be able to place their prayers in the water and have them glow in the night. After several iterations of boats with tealights that floated away from us, we came upon the idea of folding an origami boat for the prayer. After the people fold their boat and write their prayer, it is dipped in beeswax to waterproof it.  The aquaria are filled with Still Creek water. Under the aquaria beeswax candles are lit to glow through each individual prayer for the water as a point of hope”.

Garden of Community Lanterns

Still Moon Arts

Lanterns created by Still Moon and community members of all ages.

Still Light (Geometric Wooden Lantern)

Ari Lazer

Still Light was a beautiful geometric wooden lantern installation at this year’s Moon Festival. When looked at different angles, the geometric shapes and lines produces cool psychedelic patterns.

Love Poems For The Bees

Carmen Rosen

 “As we have become aware of the effect of neonicotinoid pesticides on bees and other pollinators, a movement has grown to restore our awareness of and protection of bees and pollinators on whom we depend for our food. Love Poems for the Bees is an opportunity for people to express their love for bees in poetry, photo transfer, text and images printed and drawn on silk hexagons, dipped in beeswax and illuminated by beeswax candles”. 

Fluttering Hand

Ben Rosen-Purcell

Fluttering hand was a creative work of art at the Streamside Installation this year.

Salmon and Boat Lanterns

Still Moon Arts and Community Members

Salmon and Boat Lanterns are created by Windermere Secondary Grade 8 & 9 Leadership Students.