Wooden
raccoon
decapitated

By Layne Christensen
Community Reporter

GLENN Greensides
extends a message to the
many visitors to Grouse
Mountain: you can look
but don’t touch.

The internationally recog:
nized chain saw artist said his
wooden sculptures, which stand
in clusters at the peak of Grouse
Mountain, receive litde
from a public that views them as
an elaborate playground.

“It’s art, not a jungle gym,”
said Greensides at his carving
site at the base of the mounrain.

The 36-year-old artist is a
fixture at Grouse Mountain. He
is on contract to create 30 sculp-
runes for the mountain's Tribute
to the Forest project, a perma-
nent exhibidon of Greensides’
carvings. Nineteen sculptures
are completed.

He recently returned from a
tip to Vancouver Island to find
vandals had knocked the head
off a raccoon on one of two
sculptures that stand at the base
of the Skyride. Hiking
Adventure, « 4.88-metre (16-
foot) sculpture was carved from
a single Douglas fir.

Grouse Mountain president
Stuart McLaughlin said the
sculptures shi be respected
for their artistic merit.

“It’s a shame that people
don’t appreciate that he is a real
talent and that these are art-
works.”

McLaughlin described
Greensides as a premier chain
saw carver who has received

NEWS photo Torry Psters

WOOD sculptor Glenn Greensides holds the broken
head of a raccoon from his carving at Grouse Mountain.

international attention for his
work. The artist has a 10-year
contract to carve 12 sculptures
for a hotel in Inawashiro, Japan.

Last October he was award-
ed by Forest Renewal B.C. His
sculptures use wood harvested
from dead standing trees.

“He has tremendous sup-
port for his project, Tithute to
the Forest, and he has a very
timely message to convey: thar
we have to respect our forest,”

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said McLaughlin.

Greensides would like the
public to treat his art better.
“It's like the totems at Staniey
Park. Everybody’s got to etch
their name in and climb on
them and get some funny pic-
ture. Why can’t they just stand
beside them?”

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