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."
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