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Projects
Varying experience from little visions to massive undertakings, Octopus Spirit knows how to turn the imaginary into the corporeal
Small-scale painting, multi-story building murals and house posts, gigantic installations on the sides of bridges and hydro dams, we tell stories in places that get noticed. Whether personal, communal, infrastructural or commercial, our artist team goes from idea inception to project implementation.
Salmon Nexus
The Salmon Nexus, a medium-height sculpture on the corner of an office-complex commissioned by Orion Construction Inc., is located at 56th Ave and 200th Street in Langley City, where multiple river estuaries, such as the Salmon, Serpentine, and Niklmekl Rivers cross. Rivers that were once massive salmon migration routes, and major transportation hubs for Coast Salish Peoples, which are now just trickling streams, diminished by decades of colonial infrastructure development, terraforming, and industrial farming. This sculpture references the important roles these river systems played and continue to play in such a central area.
Prophesy
Connecting Desi Mundo, Pancho Pescador, Steven Smith and Octopus Spirit Enterprises, this Seattle-based international collaboration is a mural depicting the prophecy from the 1800’s by Chief Seattle. Within this storytelling is an additional layer honouring the Tsimshian people in Alaska and a true tale of their matriarchal resistance to colonial occupation during World War II.
Alice Street Legacy Mural
This massive two-storey mural, located in the library of Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Surrey campus, is two stories. It illustrates the history of Oakland, California, a neighbourhood that housed many marginalized communities and sparked several world-changing movements. It also honours long-time Vancouver advocate, Kat Norris, having her on the face of what that change looks like there.
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