The Emptyful Sculpture in Winnipeg

This new work of art by Vancouver artist Bill Pechet, is based on the shape of a container, over 10 meters high, made of stainless steel, lights, water and fog. It was created as part of the Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada project, and the Winnipeg Arts Council’s Public Art Program. emptyful is inspired by the idea that Winnipeg, (and the prairies which surround it) is full of emptiness...a bo

undless space where various phenomena such as weather, light, seasons and human endeavour come and go. The recognizable shape implies containment, but the open construction allows for the opposite: light, wind, rain and snow flow through easily. Through the open vessel Winnipeg architecture is framed and highlighted. This shape also suggests an experiment, as a way to acknowledge that the city itself is a constant experiment, the product of imagination and knowledge. emptyful includes light and water features as well. A rain curtain and fog during the summer, these water elements and the container itself will be lit at night with colours which cool and calm the summer heat, shifting greens, blues, aquas, whites, with the occasional burst of a hot colour. The winter lighting settings will be softly pulsing fire colours….orange, yellows, soft whites, ambers and reds to bring a warm contrast to the cold evenings.