The concrete terminus point of the Canada Line at Brighouse Station has now become the site of public art work.
A $35,000 vertical art plinth, showing numerous colourful, aluminium pipes jettisoning from the elevated line, aims to intrigue daily commuters.
The pipes represent electrical wires to draw parallels to the electrical train system. The colours selected were based on those used in fiber-optic wiring.
The city unveiled the work of art on Friday and changed its name from Roost to Cluster, after abandoning the idea of making it home to birds.
Carlyn Yandle, a journalist turned artist, designed the piece.
Yandle also designed the artwork embedded in the scramble crosswalk at No. 1 Road and Moncton Street.
Cluster will stay up for about one year at which point artist Nathan Lee will replace it with his $45,000 SkyDam piece.
SkyDam will feature painted driftwood to resemble a beaver dam, as well as a group of beavers, sculpted from rigid foam, according toa report to council last year.
SkyDam can be interpreted by drawing parallels between beaver and human efforts in managing our environment and habitats.
Both projects are part of a $200,000 public art program.
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