Below, looking skyward from National Gallery of Canada. Right (if you are not on a mobile, otherwise, below below), looking skyward from the newly (finally!) renovated National Arts Centre (NAC). They are blocks apart. They seem drawn by the same inspiration.
Through my job I recently had the chance to work in the back offices of the NAC. It was fun. Not as swanky as the public areas. A secret labyrinth of offices and meeting rooms. A staff cafeteria called the Green Room. Low ceilinged corridors lined with endless black with white lettering chalkboard reminiscent upright trunks of the Alberta Ballet.
Also in the back, staff desensitized to the excitement of what goes on on the other side of their walls - for example Christine Girard receiving her Olympic medals, of interest nationally and internationally, but not so much for the folks steps away.
