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Showing A r o u n d Town Ark, 36"x 48", oil on mylar, by Marcus North Vancouver images artist Marcus Bowcoft at Capilano College, but Bowcott now teaches years ago he worked on freighters and has created a series of strong, bold that portray the strength and heaviness scale of the human of such ships. He says, "I body, and communicate near them." the wanted to convey the size and gravity of the vessels I worked around, relate their mass to the diminished Mr. John Gray on catwalk 1906. Courtesy Museum of Capilano Vancouver Hume, sense of physical vulnerability of the North and awe I felt when working "I vividly recall climbing up a rickety swinging gangway of a massive ship and thinking to myself thai the ship was like a modern Gothic cathedral. As the Gothic cathedral century Europe, these structures construct, are extensions of their overwhelming are poignant mercantile equivalent of a is a powerful symbol of twelfthsymbols for our time and cul- & Archives. In the early years of logShore, flumes were often shingle ging on the North the most efficient way of transporting Inlet For the more adventurous vided possibilities for recreation. historic photographs Vancouver bolts from the forests to the mills on Burrard they also proAn exhibit of ture, or more to the point, our mass culture. Like mass culture, they are our of "us" and our "stuff." And as it is with mass culmade less significant in the presence scale." and acrylics are from the Ark Series and will be on 2. Information: 924-1378. ture, we are dwarfed by them, somehow will take a look at the Museum 987-5618. & role flumes played in the early years of North at the North Vancouver 8-April I. Info: Archives January Bowcott's latest monoprints exhibit at the Seymour Art Gallery, January 8-February Carina, graphite, paste/, charcoal on paper, by Libby Marcuzzi. Insvtute An Emily Carr will have of Art and Design graduate, Marcuzzi a solo show, As a Leaf Always Turns Towards the Sky, at the West Vancouver Memorial March Library, February 32. "The source of my and plea- creative inspiration around painting sure is the visible world me. My approach to is to begin with lookand Photo from the spring Capilano College Student Textile Arts Show. Gallery Some of these artists will join other college alumni, students, and Ruth Scheuing in a group exhibit at the Ferry Building February 2S-March 9. Call 925-7290 for more details. ing at my surroundings, certain to then give expression to visions and moods Marcuzzi. that fill me with a certain spark," says