The Polygon Gallery

Opening Apr 10 James Harry: Eye of the Ancestor. A new sculpture by James Harry marks the gallery’s seventh collaboration and co-commission with Burrard Arts Foundation. The work is a striking yellow cedar wooden sphere, carved with Coast Salish designs on the surface and holding a mirror-polished steel sphere inside. It creates layered reflections and viewpoints that shift with the viewer’s movements around the sculpture. The title draws from Coast Salish visual language, where the eye is associated with awareness, presence and continuity beyond the individual. Harry’s sculpture translates that form into a multiscalar design that enacts a subtle intergenerational choreography, reflecting Indigenous pedagogies wherein knowledge is relational, accumulative, and often revealed incrementally across the arc of one’s life.