{"id":11196,"date":"2025-07-20T19:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11196\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T19:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:42:17","slug":"new-huge-coast-salish-sculpture-at-granville-and-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11196\/","title":{"rendered":"New huge Coast Salish sculpture at Granville and Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Standing 40 feet tall, the new pillar received a traditional Coast Salish blessing after its installation<\/p>\n

A huge new piece of\u00a0public art has received its official blessing\u00a0at the corner of West Broadway and Granville Street.<\/p>\n

The 40-foot-tall sculpture, which has been visible for a little while, received a Coast Salish blessing on July 14, 2025, at a ceremony. The ceremony\u00a0acts as a cutting of ties between the art and the artist, as the art is now in the care of the community.<\/p>\n

Called “S\u00ednulh\u1e35ay,” the piece\u00a0covers a pillar at the new building being finished on the northeast corner of the major intersection.<\/p>\n

When the Broadway subway project is finished, the building will also house the Granville Street Station.<\/p>\n

The piece was created by\u00a0S\u1e35wx\u0331w\u00fa7mesh Nation (Squamish) artist James Nexw\u2019Kalus-Xwalacktun Harry and Japanese-Trinidadian artist Lauren Brevner.<\/p>\n

S\u00ednulh\u1e35ay\u00a0is a “supernatural double-headed serpent” according to a press release, and is found in the oral history of the local First Nations.<\/p>\n

“Clad in metal and lined with reclaimed, charred red cedar, the sculpture bridges the artists\u2019 S\u1e35wx\u0331w\u00fa7mesh and Japanese cultural lineages,” reads the release. “The blackened interior evokes\u00a0yakisugi<\/a>, a traditional Japanese technique of wood preservation through fire that has scorched the path of the double-headed serpent,\u00a0S\u00ednulh\u1e35ay.”<\/p>\n

Located near the Granville Street Bridge, the sculpture is meant to greet visitors and residents as they enter the city core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Standing 40 feet tall, the new pillar received a traditional Coast Salish blessing after its installation A huge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-11196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}