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“The Hippie”, a granite sculpture by William Koochin, is another International Sculpture Symposium piece from 1967. He appears like a rumpled professor, in a tweed jacket, baggy pants, hands in pockets, thumbs out, peering at us through sunglasses. He even sports a “Love” button on the lapel! He seems to have climbed up onto the pedestal to get a better view of everything happening at the High Park Nature Centre. He seems wise, like a latter day Socrates; one senses that he would approve.
William Koochin was a BC artist who studied at the Vancouver School of Art and the Grande Chaumiere and Manufacture de Sevres in Paris. He taught sculpture at Emily Carr University from 1961-1988. His granite sculpture of Rick Hansen, the Man in Motion, is at the Vancouver General Hospital.
