Monument to East Vancouver develops from a graffiti symbol that has circulated for several decades in East Vancouver. Over the years, the symbol has been adopted as an emblem for East Vancouver as a whole, but its appearance has generally been tentative rather than overt. The lack of overtness is, I feel, symptomatic of the underlying meanings that the symbol expresses. These meanings have to do with problems of injustice, inequality, subjucation, and the trauma of poverty and acculturation, partially as it relates to immigrant life. My proposal is for a site that sits on a visually messy and peripheral site in East Vancouver. The East Vancouver symbol is rendered as a 57 foot sculpture that lights up after dark, the words East and Van encircled by a cross delineation that seems to float all on its own. The sculpture faces westward toward downtown, towards the centre.