A trompe l'oeil in which a field of sculptures combine into a single image.

Still Life, of course, isn’t still at all, but a playful take on the stuffiness and insularity of “high” art.

Still Life is a set of six sculptures located in the centre of the grassy space near the Grant MacEwan LRT station. Each individual sculpture is a whimsical, colourful addition to the Grant MacEwan LRT site, but when viewed together from a viewpoint looking through the final sculpture, a picture frame, all the pieces flatten into a classic trope of Western painting: the still life with fruit bowl.

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The sculptures are spaced with enough distance between them that commuters or students can walk freely between them, entering and exiting the “picture”. In some ways, the sculptures are like a puzzle, one that invites pause in order for curious viewers to solve with their own positioning.

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The project is titled “Still Life” as a play on the vitality of site. It capitalizes on the heavy pedestrian traffic surrounding the rail station by drawing passersby into the composition. People viewing the piece can flatten the a flat image by standing in front of the frame, and change the image by walking amongst the sculptures.