It has always been a surprisingly popular stop. When we were Vancouver tour guides, the chatter would quicken as visitors neared the Gastown Steam Clock. “Is it hundreds of years old?” “It was designed to look like an antique, but built in 1977.” “Can we see it from here? Is it huge?” “It’s 17

i. I am: DINA GOLDSTEIN ARTIST. b.1969. East Vancouver. I  photograph large scale narrative tableau. In my work I tackle the common (collective) imagination and inherent beliefs. I subvert iconic characters and dogmatic thought patterns set by societies and popular culture in order to promote critical thinking. I was a photojournalist

Natalia Solis Vermette i. I work as a: florist ii. I do this creative work because: Flowers are something that found me after many years of searching for what I can only describe as the missing piece of my soul. I rely enormously on the creative process of working with

‘While the poet wrestles with the horses in his brain and the sculptor wounds his eyes on the hard spark of alabaster, the dancer battles the air around her, air that threatens at any moment to destroy her harmony or to open huge empty spaces where her rhythm will be