Capturing a creek

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Before leaving for Thailand, he was commissioned by
Visions of the North Shore to create a print that reflected his
impressions of North Vancouver's Mosquito Creek.

When he visited the creek, he strolled along the waterway
unt he felt the spirit and the energy of the site. It was snow-
ing that day. The site reminded the artist of playing in clear
streams near his home, an experience that has influenced
imagery in his work over time.

“Today, in Japan, the streams are polluted, submerged or
forgotten altogether under cities. There are no more fireflies,
frogs, dragonflies and fish in the streams near my childhood

jome.”

When visiting the North Shore site, Chiba heard the
speech from the water, and knew this would not be possible at
a place that was too industrialized or developed. He wanted to
look at Mosquito Creek as it was in the past and went to the
North Vancouver Museum and Archives to look at photos.
His research and sensory experiences are depicted in the print.

Childhood images are also reflected through the mosquito
on the print, representing “nymphs presiding over rivers and

_ springs, and the juvenile form of the dragonfly.”

Chiba, who has a master of fine arts from Concordia in
Montreal, received his early arts training in Japan, where he
continues to show his work. He has exhibited at galleries in
Bulgaria, Germany, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, Estonia, Poland,
Taiwan, China and Korea.
+. While he creates his works at the Art Institute of Capilano
_ College, he continues to travel to gain the colour and mood

of physical and emotional environments. Whether in Baffin
Island where the “seamlessness of land and sky in the arctic
“landscape of blowing snow” made it into his imagery or in
"India, where “great saturated colours” were combined with
found materials like soil, insects, flowers and Icaves, he is gath-
ering the spirit of place. For Visions of the North Shore, he
-. has captured the spirit of Mosquito Creek, and the energy of
- the stream, here in his own community.

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