sculpture – johnboystravelblog

August 30, 2025

When I stopped briefly in Castlegar on my way to Cranbrook earlier in my trip I had picked up a brochure about this activity and after looking through it I decided I wanted to come back and check it out for myself. Fortunately it was a nice day, as the sculptures are scattered all over town, though there is a concentration of them in the downtown shopping district.

The artwork in the photo above was featured on the cover of the brochure I had seen. It is called “Dedngon”. Here is another angle of it:

Most of these sculptures are available for sale or lease. The only deterrent to photographing them was that many were backlit by the sun. There were many more than I am going to show you, but I’ve tried to pick the best ones to post. You can Google the name and see photos of many of the ones that I will post, as well as others that are no longer in circulation, or were in parts of town that I didn’t go to. I tried to find all the ones that were downtown or close to it.

The bench above is supposed to represent a tree trunk, with new growth sprouting from the top.

The artwork in the photo above is called “Just Had To Look” and features a small man crawling on a hand held sphere who is peering down into a hole in the surface.

The artwork in the photo above is called “Living Fossil” and is of a swimming white sturgeon.

The artwork in the photo above is called “Don’t Judge Me by My Cover.”

That one is called “Mask of Ooinn” (the first two letters of the last word have characters above them which I am unable to replicate here). It is one of the few sculptures I saw that was not made out of metal. It depicts the chief Norse deity (as stated in the brochure).

“Egghead” was purchased by a local business and is on display outside the public library.

The next two I found in Millenium Park, a large city park east of town and next to the Columbia River.

And the next one is in several parts. It is metal shaped in the form of a curved maple leaf. It covers a bench near the river and has a nice detailed painting inside.