Jack Holmes creates a micro-museum in this interactive sculpture. Within three rust-colored, steel arches, viewers are invited to trace the material landscape of the past with their fingertips. Holme’s concept was to memorialize and honor the early tools and the hands of pioneers that laid the foundations of our city.

Local families and longtime residents donated the antique artifacts such as kitchen utensils, woodworking tools, and other farming instruments that are welded to the inner steel walls.

Jack Holme was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1923. After training as a mechanical engineer and later product designer, Holme’s became known for his abstract bronze sculptures and his unique sculptural style of by joining natural materials such as branches and twigs with discarded metal together in unusual ways.