Although the sculpture takes a natural phenomenon as its starting point, it also displays a technical perfection,
artificially coloured to correpond to the sky and to contrast with the bright yellow of the piles of sulfur
just visible across the harbour. The sculpture's angle and orientation create a visual dialogue with the
architecture of the Convention Centre West, as well as with the bows of the cruise ships.
Like an abstract, radiant blue ship's figurehead, it marks the interface between
land and water, between nature and technology.

I love this thing! I see it as Vancouver giving the midle finger to all the detractors who complain
"it rains too much." Well, here's to you fella. Trust us to finally build a monument to Rain.
The Drop is 58' (20 m) tall, 8' (2 m) around the base and weighs 2,700 kg or 6,000 lbs.
It cost $800,000 and was budgeted in the Convention Centre's construction costs.

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