Two weeks ago, we recommended Ken Lum’s talk about his upcoming role as public artist on the project to replace Edmonton’s aged Walterdale Bridge. This week, Chelsea Boos recaps in Vue:

What if the waters of the North Saskatchewan flowed blood red?

This stunning image emerged in my mind after the lecture last Thursday at the AGA by Ken Lum, the lead artist on the design team for the new Walterdale bridge, after he described the city’s heart as lying in the middle of the river. “The heart of the city is really the dividing line and the intersecting line, at the same time, between two different cities … it’s there, historically, naturally,” said Lum. We heard his theory about the bridge as a vantage point for the past as seen through the panorama of both the south and north sides of the city, the other bridges, the legislature building, and the fort, not to mention prehistoric geological time.