From: Vancouver is Awesome
It's only at a specific time of year you'll see the foliage-based work of Nik Rust.
The local designer is behind some of the unique, intricate designs left in some of Vancouver's parts and public areas this past fall. Going by the handle @rakemob on Instagram, he raked leaves into simple but precise circles around the trees they fell from, creating patterns of concentric circles like ripples of water or sound waves emanating from deciduous trunks.
"The idea has been bouncing around in my head for at least a decade," he tells Vancouver Is Awesome. "Falls would come and go and wouldn't get to it."
But, like many people, the parks were the place to be with the pandemic in play in 2020, and he finally put rake to leaf and got to work.
"Everything was kind of different as far the day-to-day," he says. "Parks were being used in ways they never had before."
He goes out early to create his art, so as people head out at the start of their day the designs are already in place, having appeared as if out of nowhere. While the majority of people who see his art have no idea how it got there, some early risers do catch him.
