BUMP 2023: Rundle Train Station Mural, Calgary, AB

I am honored to have been selected to create a mural as part of a revitalization project for Calgary Transit in collaboration with the BUMP festival Calgary.

The mural concept is based on a pitcher plant, which is a carnivorous plant residing in bogs. The type which grows in Canada is the Sarracenia purpurea, commonly referred to as the purple or northern pitcher plant; it is one of the 18 species of carnivorous plant species in Canada. Due to the limited available nutrition in bogs, these plants have developed pitcher like structures which allow them to hold water and attract insects to their lethal interior ponds which double as stomachs. The pitcher plant was chosen as Newfoundland and Labrador's Provincial Flower more than one hundred years ago by Queen Victoria. These plants are also found on Newfoundland and Labrador pennies.

The pitcher plant depicted in the mural is a mobile, yellow variant foraged from the surreal wilds of the popsurreal imagination which has packed a bag and decided to wait for a train at Rundle station as part of an adventure across Canada.