Stripes and circles
Lebreton Flats and
downtown Ottawa,1976
Again the documentation is in sorry shape and almost non existent. I ordered 1,500$ of material from
the garment district of Toronto. My friend Chris in Toronto said, "The deal is a four ft. wide red stretch
material, 8000ft. of it, red, nobody wants it." 'Great' I said. It came in several inter-city busses, then
carted to the site by taxies, the drivers a little puzzled when they dropped the material in the rolling
wasteland that was Lebreton Flats near the old waterworks.
A group of older hippies helped me spread out the red material, anchoring it down with nails. The pattern
was changed three times, with some of the stripes travelling across the city. The stripes were then cut
into circles and spread out on the same terrain.
by the Arts Centre