Artist says she’s heartbroken that public art piece has vanished from downtown

EDMONTON – A public art piece has vanished from downtown Edmonton.

The piece was a large metal picture frame that artist Naomi Pahl had decorated by designing and developing more than 300 stickers that had been applied, and painted over.

Its location at 97 St. and Jasper Ave. overlooks the city’s river valley.

Pahl says the idea was for visitors or Edmontonians to take pictures of themselves in the frame and then upload those shots to social media.

Pahl says she fully expected the public piece might be vandalized or painted over, but she never expected it would be removed.

Since the metal piece weighed several hundred pounds, Pahl says it would have taken several people to lift it.

“After putting hundreds of hours into it, to find that it was stolen is very heartbreaking and I hope that we can find it,” she said.

(CTV Edmonton)