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Heron's Landing is a bronze and stainless steel sculpture by Jock Hildebrand, listed by Tourism Nelson Kootenay Lake as public art at Rotary Lakeside Park, Nelson, British Columbia. The Public Art Inventory, a PDF the listing links to, gives its height as 25 feet.
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Heron's Landing
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Site-level location · 49.5027° N, 117.2855° W
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Tourism Nelson Kootenay Lake's listing describes Heron's Landing as a bronze and stainless steel sculpture by Jock Hildebrand (Kelowna, BC), filed under Public Art at Rotary Lakeside Park in Nelson, British Columbia.
The listing carries a first-person artist's statement, under Hildebrand's credit. In it, the sculpture is called a "referential sculpture" that "has been allowed a large degree of stylization", and the artist says he set out to "emphasize and exaggerate the inherent grace of form" of the species. The statement says the four bronze balls are meant to indicate the four cardinal points, and that the stainless steel portion is meant to separate the sky from the earth, reflect the sky and lift the heron from its earth-bound plinth.
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Rotary Lakeside Park, Nelson, British Columbia, according to Tourism Nelson Kootenay Lake's listing; the inventory says Lakeside Park.
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Tourism Nelson Kootenay Lake lists the work under Public Art at Rotary Lakeside Park. The listing states no hours or access arrangements.
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