Lea Vivot on her Secret Bench of Knowledge

"It was about 9 o'clock in the evening, early in May 1989, when sculptor Lea Vivot deposited her work, Secret Bench, Lost Paradise, in front of the building. Because of its weight (315 kilograms), a truck with a winch was needed to put the sculpture in place. When people arrived for work the next morning, they were delighted to see the new addition and assumed that it had been put there by another government department."
- Library and Archives Canada (2000)

"The building needed something and I don't feel that artists have the time to go through the bureaucratic approach. In the same amount of time that it would take to go through all this (bureaucracy) I can cast another sculpture and enhance another space."
- Lea Vivot on her Secret Bench of Knowledge (Ottawa Citizen, Friday, April 20, 1990)

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