Nolan Havas' Mesmerizing Rocks

With all these beach rocks down there at English Bay one can imagine that the talented Nolan Havas, a young Cree Indian artist from Saskatchewan who has spent much of his youth on Vancouver Island, will never run out of canvases. He’s the fellow placing the rocks on the boulders in such a way as to defy gravity, as they lean into the wind standing on a tiny point of their base. He displays his sketch work while he’s concentrating with the rocks and hopes to become a graphic designer soon.

The resulting leaning rocks have a mesmerizing effect as people seem to stare in disbelief. Fun to watch Nolan manage his little crowd of fans, a lot of whom are women who manage to say the most ridiculous things just to get him chatting.

So while Nolan creates these mini-marvels what say we dismantle that Eskimo stack of boulders which to me resembles a prehistoric jumble of monoliths, devoid of artistic sensibility altogether. Given that the space its occupying is really quite precious it seems to beg for a monument of some style and beauty, something grandiose even.