Soaring Street Art: Vancouver

I don’t know how far I’ve gone on my walk from my hotel to the Vancouver Convention Centre, through rush-hour traffic, through nervousness that I’m late for an interview, I’m late for conference registration, I’m not 100-percent entirely sure I’m even walking in the right direction, when I start to notice the eagles. New York has its Wall Street bull; I’ve seen painted gator sculptures in Florida; Stamford, Conn. had its cows, and here in Vancouver I see the eagles. Then more of them.

During a creative phase years ago when I made cards and stationery and paper art, I bought a stamp that read, “When in doubt, look up.” These Vancouver eagles make me look up, slow down, observe.

I am going in the right direction to the convention center. I make my interview. I register for the conference. Four years later, what I remember are the eagles.

—Lori Tripoli