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'Cascades".
80' x 16' plus the spill out!


Location: NW corner Wall & Wolever; East Face

Occupant: Cascades Canada Inc.

District: West End

Neighbourhood: Minto

Artist(s): Mandy van Leeuwen, Michel Saint Hilaire (both unsigned)

Year: 2022

 

Chris Watson (Cascades Plant Manager): "We recognize that we are a manufacturing facility in the middle of a very family oriented area. We've got a school right next to us where we've got children in the neighbourhood that cross our path every day all school year long; and we wanted to make sure that we contributed in a positive way to our community. We have crossing guards stationed here all school year and we pay for them to help these kids cross this street and our shipping yard just to make sure they get to school safely. We felt it was important to have our building with our name and our reputation on the line to represent something beautiful in our community. We have a sense of ownership of the building and how it should look and how it should be a part of the community, and we wanted go give the kids something fun to look at moving forward. You know, we have lots more of real estate on the building so we're hoping that we can have the school contribute some artwork on the side of our building."

"When we met with Mandy and Michel the only direction we gave them was that we wanted to incorporate how Cascades is working with nature- not against it. Cascades is a green company. We've been green before it was cool. It was a company started by a family to recycle. We wanted to capture that; and also bring Cascades' origins in Quebec- Kingsey Falls and tie the roots of our company to the prairies where we are now. And that's exactly what they did, and we couldn't be happier with what they did. It captured exactly what we were looking for, with nature."

Tom Ethans (ED, Take Pride Winnipeg): "It's incredible how these artists have transformed a boring wall into a beautiful piece of art."

Michel St. Hilaire: "The crane is a lone bird in Manitoba and is not often seen so we wanted to use it as a Manitoba symbol instead of more commonly overused symbols like the polar bear or loons or geese. The crane is a beautiful bird and whenever you see one in nature it's a stunning thing to see. We wanted to celebrate the crane and have it as our star there in the middle."

"They (the clients) also said 'maybe a bit of cardboard' so we just added that corrugation at the corner there which is very abstract as we didn't want to have boxes in the scene. You see the corrugation with the triangles. So that's the suggestion of the products of their industry. We also have the suggestion of toilet paper there."