Team Hapa Collaborative
To learn more about the Monument, please visit the National Monument to Canada's Mission in Afghanistan page.
Images of the Design Concept
Team members
- Joseph Fry, Landscape Architect
- Jacqueline Metz, Visual Artist
- Nancy Chew, Visual Artist
- Benjamin Hertwig, Writer, Lecturer, PhD Candidate, Veteran of the Afghanistan War
- Jordan McCauley, Landscape Architect, Artist, Veteran of the Afghanistan War
Design intent
The Monument is a place through which you move in private or communal acts of tribute and remembrance. It is encircled by a grove of trees, a meadow of wildflowers, and the Ceremonial Lawn. Within this perimeter is a walled garden containing a majestic wall - The Mission Wall - and heroic figurative walls, Sentinels that reflect the opening in The Mission Wall. Together they are about presence and absence, about stepping forward. The walls are massive, strong, beautiful, with carved text. A pattern of granite pavers alludes to a labyrinth, a metaphor for the inner journey.
These elements form a place to explore contemplatively, alone or with others. The idea of a garden, especially a walled garden, is about ‘home’, tranquility, security, about our shared humanity - an appropriate metaphor for Canada’s mission to rebuild Afghanistan. Ultimately, the garden asks us to reflect on the passage of time, on renewal and regeneration.
Transcript of the National Monument to Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan Team Hapa video
Video length: 1:31 minutes
The visual elements are photographs and 3D animation.
[Text on screen: Team Hapa Collaborative
National Monument to Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan
Photographs of Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan]
Voice of Jordan McAuley: “Having nothing but sand in front of your eyes and being in darkness,
You know, scarf around your nose and mouth and goggles down and just
Riding it out as it just pelts against your clothing equipment
And leaves as rapidly as it came on.”
[Animated rendering of monument looking south, with a progressively closer view of monument components, a white stone wall and pillars]
[Rendering of the monument site in winter]
[Close-up rendering of people interacting with the monument, reading inscriptions on some of the stone pillars, a view of the Peace Tower in the background]
Voice of Jordan McAuley : “These moments, like, they come back to you
If not every day, close to it (for me personally)
And, your perspective changes
As years and decades go by.”
[Text on screen: Joseph Fry, Landscape Architect, Jacqueline Metz, Visual Artist, Nancy Chew, Visual Artist, Benjamin Hertwig, Writer, Lecturer, PhD Candidate, Veteran of the Afghanistan War, Jordan McCauley, Landscape Architect, Artist, Veteran of the Afghanistan War, Video Narrator]
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