Indo-Canadian Couple From Surrey First To Get A Lock On Vancouver’s “Love Lock” Sculpture

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Surrey – An Indo-Canadian cou ple from Surrey couple is first to –
lock in their love at a new sculpture at
Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Park.
Arvinder Gill and Sukhdeep Uppal, who were the first couple to do
so, and who also got engaged at the
sculpture, engraved their padlock recently
which was placed at the “Love in the Rain”
sculpture. Gill told the media he contacted
the Vancouver Park Board to enquire about
the completion of the so-called “love locks”
sculpture so they could be the first to get a
padlock locked onto it.


“I read a news story about the sculpture and
thought it would be a memorable way for me
and Sukhdeep to express our love,”

Gill was quoted as
saying in a Vancouver park board press
release on Wednesday.
“I proposed at the
love locks on September 5th, Sukhdeep
accepted and then we
added our love lock.”
The park board approved the steel
sculpture, which features four entwined
couples and is priced
at $50,000, at a meeting last May.
The piece, designed
by Vancouver-based
artist Bruce Voyce,
“celebrates the shelter that love brings
and the union that it
forms. Love has no
boundaries and therefore the human forms
in the sculpture have
been left both ageless and genderless,
locked together in
an everlasting embrace.”
Vancouver Park
Board chair Sarah
Kirby-Yung said she
expects “this striking
public art will delight
residents and visitors
alike as it’s beautiful
and interactive. Public art is important
because it creates engaging spaces in our
parks and cities.”
The sculpture is located in the lookout
above the Quarry
Garden near Bloedel Conservatory
at the top of Queen
Elizabeth Park. It
is designed to support several thousand
locks on the skirts of
each couple. Keys
can be deposited in a
box on site and will
eventually be recycled or melted down
to become part of another sculpture, according to park board
officials.
“Love locks” are
padlocks that romantic partners have
traditionally locked
to a bridge, gate, or
similar public fixture
to show their love.
Names or initials are
typically inscribed on
the padlock, and its
key is thrown away
to symbolize an unbreakable bond.