Stained glass windows for the King Edward Transit Station, Canada Line, the work features Vancouver landmarks: the Two Sisters (mountain peaks), sequoia trees on the Cambie Boulevard, a twisted pine from Lighthouse Park, a lichen covered rock.

Lichen can be found just about anywhere, from deserts to mountain tops. Neither plant nor animal, it is a symbiosis of fungus and algae. The word symbiosis was invented to describe the cooperation of these two mysterious life forms.

Symbiosis can also symbolize other kinds of mutual support. For example, the Two Sisters commemorate the peaceful co-existence the Haida and the Squamish Nations. The earth is a living network of relations inextricably linked together.

In conceiving the work, I looked for surfaces and textures that suggest mapping or weaving; a network of branches for example, functioning as a kind of screen, through which to see light, people and movement beyond. I wanted to bring the feeling of the forest, chaotic but somehow ordered, back into the city.