In the summer of 2011, artist Janice Wright Cheney was driving from Nova Scotia to her home in New Brunswick when she saw something by the side of the road — a bear curled up like it was asleep.

But it wasn’t asleep; the bear was dead. It saddened Wright Cheney and made her think of how a death affects those left behind.

Working with the idea of grief, she created two grizzly bears: one is standing on its hind legs — it was shown as part of the groundbreaking exhibition of Canadian art called Oh, Canada at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in 2012 — and the other is in mid-stride on three legs with the fourth raised off the ground. The second bear is now on display on the fifth-floor reception area of the new TELUS garden building in downtown Vancouver. The piece is called Widow (Walking).

Wright Cheney said the bear is the one “left behind, the bear that grieves.