When we think of sculpture, the classic marbles of Michelangelo readily spring to mind, and anyone who has viewed “The Archer” by Henry Moore, has noted the gradual changes appearing this century both in medium and in content. Modern artists are using different mediums, such as the glass of Dale Ghihuly.
What’s happening in B.C. - there is a Sculpture Society. One of their members is our own Ralph Heading, a Tsawwassen resident, who has taken the wonderful gremlins and ogres conjured by illustrators in the Ed Emberly book Go Away Big Green Monster and Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and created a whimsical display at the Ladner Pioneer Library.
Heading’s imagination is amazing. The sculptures are mounted and smile down on the youngest library patrons – every kind of monster has such a whimsical quality that adults and children are sure to find chase any monster out of their life.
“The reason this was created was to say thanks for the Pioneer Library having shown both my kids and grandkids to love books and reading,” he told the Optimist.
The display is on-going during March and April, so be sure to take a look and take your children and grandchildren…. to the Ladner Pioneer Library.
