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Capital Boulevard: Scale Maquette and Carvers Work

capital boulevard: Arcand's scale maquette sits in the foreground as the carvers work on the actual sculpture, according to CBC. John Robertson/CBC To enable us to get further and to learn about my culture and other minorities cultures and to be able to come together and share was my message, Arcand said. Emerging from the stone are faces of a woman, a man, an eagle, a bear and a buffalo, important spiritual images for the Alberta Cree artist Leo Arcand. So we utilized that buffalo to knock away that negativity so we can walk together and walk forward as one. The site on Capital Boulevard where Arcand's Nature's Harmony will be placed. Nature's Harmony is one of the five sculptures commissioned for the Capital Boulevard Legacy Public Art Project Canada 150 and will be installed on Capital Boulevard, or 108th Street, between 99th and 104th avenues. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.