Communigraph 70 - Ottawa, Ontario - Abstract Public Sculptures on Waymarking.com

Price designed “Communigraph ’70” for Ottawa’s new Postal Terminal. Government spending cutbacks of the day reduced his budget by 30 percent. This meant he had to use less metal and make radical alterations in the design. Originally he had intended to make rough-textured cylindrical forms but the casting would have been too expensive for the budget reductions. Instead he changed the forms to flat fins which were cast in a clay and sand mixture and welded together, giving the illusion of enclosing an actual volume, but in fact using much less aluminum. The work was carried out at Alloy Foundry in Merrickville. The concept of a three dimensional graph symbolized the lows and highs of human physical and mental communication potential.


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Title: Communigraph 70 Artist: Art Price Media (materials) used: Aluminum Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Postal Terminal -1424 Sandford Fleming Ave (at Industrial Ave) Date of creation or placement: 1970

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