The rocks "stand" on the south (Kingsway) side of the Collingwood Branch of the Vancouver Public Library. Some of the rocks I recognize, but not the green ones. Were they painted? I should have paid closer attention. Might have been distracted by the VPL's repainting of the structure's wooden portions, from brown to what architect Douglas Simpson's son Gregg, a self-proclaimed "surrealist," calls "lurid blue" -- the same blue the VPL uses to spark joy when it doesn't like what it's libraries are wearing.
Below is Simpson's Modern Module #9 (1993), a 10" x 14" acrylic on canvas:
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