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Whellams Lane (1)
Location Map
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Location: N side; South Face; at pedestrian entrance to Peguis Trail
Occupant: Bergen Park
District: North Kildonan
Neighbourhood: Kildonan Drive
Artist(s): Dennis Bell
Year: 2001
Sponsors: Take Pride Winnipeg!, City of Winnipeg, Winnipeg Foundation
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Dennis Bell: "I came up with the clouds to represent a history or passing of time. The
people are walking out of the clouds. I didn't want to put a scene in; I wanted to capture
that ghostlike feeling of the people, these early settlers, coming out of the clouds, which
represents their memories, backgrounds or past. Now these are either new settlers
arriving to live here, or they could be settlers from north of here (like the Selkirk area)
arriving to sell their goods; it's not specified. I wanted to show a mix between the native
and the immigrant. I put a big beard and mustaches on the immigrants; the woman and
the child are very 'native' in appearance."
"This one took about eight days. With four different murals side-by-side at this site
going up, I didn't want the walls to come across as 'too busy', so I kept this wall fairly
simple. It was a south wall, a lot of sun, very nice. A lot of seniors who live in the area
dropped by and said how nice it was that there were Murals going up in this area. For the
oxen itself I photographed the bronze ox statue at Assiniboine Park as a photo reference,
but I changed the face a bit."
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