Eagle V.1 - Part 1
Transcript
My name is Dean Drever and I'm the artist that made Eagle V.1. Yeah well, I got the idea to make this Eagle, I looked at the area around there. And the area has always had to do with some kind of transportation or movement of people, movement of objects. It's always been a major port, a major train station, a major bus station, always having this kind of an angle to it. So being a Haida Indian I think about animals a lot and eagle is one of my totems and something I'm very interested in obviously. And I would obviously associate eagle with a lot of very quick movement and a lot of very efficient movement. So that's really what got me thinking about the eagle, as well as the importance of the eagle to the people that used to live on this land before we moved in.
Like it was important to me that this eagle was connected to this building in more ways than one. And so I feel like that's what this eagle did it's like it's coming, it's a part of this building, it's coming out of this building, it belongs to this building, it's emerging from this building.
And it was really important for me to have the head at an angle that the viewer could enjoy the gaze of the eagle, to have those eyes down right on you as you're looking up at the thing. Because I think that there is something incredibly powerful in an eagle’s gaze. And when I have an opportunity to make something that's going to be there for a long time, I really take that responsibility seriously. And I think about how this thing is going to be there a lot longer than me. And it's important to me that it makes sense all throughout those years and that it has meaning all throughout those years.