25 June 2025 – Doesn’t that sound technical, inert & boring? Even when you learn casters are rotating support systems mounted in swivel frames & used for movement?

Well, yes, is the only honest answer.

Until you see what’s moving.

First one circle of light floats across the bottom floor…

until it stubs its photons on the far wall, and begins to climb.

Up it goes, sliding up that staircase…

to gain a toe-hold, right there under the next-floor archway.

It leaps up-over the arch, and it is still climbing…

as a playmate begins its own exploration, back down at the bottom.

The newcomer opts for the near side of the staircase, while that first circle soars ever higher…

and spectators watch spellbound from the rotunda’s top floor…

unaware they’re being stalked by yet another circle, sneaking up on them from the left.

Would you prefer a less anthropomorphic explanation? Oh, all right.

I’m in the rotunda of the Vancouver Art Gallery, entranced yet again…

by Lucy Raven’s clever installation.