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Cable Navigation, 2001 | Sculptures by David Griggs | The Cable Center in Denver. Item composed of ceramic
Cable Navigation, 2001 | Sculptures by David Griggs | The Cable Center in Denver. Item composed of ceramic
Cable Navigation, 2001 | Sculptures by David Griggs | The Cable Center in Denver. Item composed of ceramic
Cable Navigation, 2001 | Sculptures by David Griggs | The Cable Center in Denver. Item composed of ceramic

Created and Sold by David Griggs

David Griggs

Cable Navigation, 2001 - Sculptures

Featured In The Cable Center, Denver, CO

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This terrazzo floor was designed specifically for the Great Hall of the National Cable Television Center and Museum. Using a limited palette of just six matrix colors, the design fills the 7,000 square foot floor with an interpretive map of the world. The map, inspired by the navigation maps of ancient mariners, contains multiple connective lines between continents and landforms. On ancient maps these would have represented trade routes across vast oceans. In this location at the Cable Center these lines instead represent the interconnectivity provided by cable and broadband technology.

The floor design represents the reach and breadth of cable, acknowledging how this technology has shrunk our world and vastly improved our communicative abilities.

Item Cable Navigation, 2001
Created by David Griggs
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David Griggs
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David Griggs is a Denver-based artist who has completed over 60 commissioned works of art throughout the United States. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Masters Degree in Fine Arts. He has worked in many capacities in the arts, including gallery manager, museum preparator, and studio artist. For the last 30 years he has been self-employed as a Public Artist, designing and building work for Percent For Art, Public Art, and Private commissions. Recent commissions include projects for Anchorage, Boulder, Chicago, Dallas, Jacksonville, Las Vegas, Madison, San Antonio, Santa Fe, Stockton, Toronto, and Washington. Increasingly he has become involved in projects that require not only designing and building Public Art, but also Public Art planning, strategizing and advocacy. Griggs lives and works with his wife Stella in a 140-year-old building in Denver’s burgeoning Santa Fe Arts District.