Ornamentum envisions a public artwork inspired by the ornamentation of the wrought iron railings found in the older Brentwood neighbourhood that surrounds the public art site. The work identifies and pays homage to Burnaby’s architectural heritage, carried forward via a dynamic and engaging work of contemporary art. Ornamentum proposes a large-scale, polished stainless steel balustrade configured into the undulating form of a trefoil knot. The work’s spiraling sculptural form is decorated by twisted balusters and embellished with double-scroll flourishes that are suggestive of a blossoming floral motif. Taken from the status of “everyday object” to that of “monumental sculpture,” the decorative railing, in Ornamentum, represents a transformation of the commonplace into the extraordinary, and the concrete into the metaphorical. In this way, what has become ordinary is repositioned and elevated so that its inherent poetics are revealed.