A few dozen gleaming aluminum pennants swing gracefully in the wind atop an organic grouping of slender metal poles, like a school of fish. As each change of wind propagates organically through the group, reflecting slightly different colours at different angles, it makes visible the fluid natural elements, as well as revealing the minor turbulence caused by the flags themselves and objects in their surroundings. In addition to revealing the fluid force of the wind and bringing to mind the flash of fish tails, the installation has a ceremonial presence. Relating to the cultural forms of flags, navigation markers, and weather vanes, these pennants signal a momentous development in the local ecosystem: the return of spawning salmon to the nearby Still Creek. Germaine Koh is an internationally active Vancouver-based artist whose work adapts commonplace objects in order consider overlooked details in the world around us. It playfully makes connections between technological systems, the natural environment, everyday social behaviours. Koh has been a recipient of the Governer General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, the Shadbolt Foundation VIVA Award and a finalist of the Sobey Art Award.