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“This Place Is Dreaming’ composed and performed by The George Burt / Raymond MacDonald Quartet Produced by Raymond MacDonald, George Burt, Martin Boyce and D.P. Johnson |
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Several years after the 1988 Delbrook Senior Secondary School massacre, the television cameras have moved on to the next horror show; but for a handful of people in this sleepy corner of Vancouver, life remains perpetually derailed.
The book is told in four voices: Cheryl, who calmly narrates her own death; Jason, the boy who no one knew was her husband; Heather, the woman trying to love the shattered Jason; and Jason’s dad Reg, a cruelly religious man no one suspects is worth loving. |
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 Tropical Birds 2003 Douglas Coupland Sculptural installation with audio
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…moments earlier, [ATF] agent Marcus Motte had gone inside the school with bomb technicians. He was peering into the flooded [Columbine] cafeteria, looking at hundreds of backpacks left behind 11 hours earlier by panicked students. Some floated in the water covering the floor. Others sat on top of tables. The instant the fire alarm went dead, Motte heard a strange, almost surreal sound welling up faintly from inside, like birds chirping. Across the cafeteria, telephone pagers in the abandoned backpacks were going off, unanswered calls from desperate parents.
“This installation was an attempt to isolate something holy and transcendent within a landscape seemingly beyond redemption. While researching the Columbine tragedy, I read the above passage. Never had I read of a situation in which the human soul had collectively risen with such raw clarity into the physical world.”   |
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 Interfaith ChapelPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport 2001 |