RALEIGH/RTP Location Old Education Building, 114 W. Edenton Street, Interior courtyard Artist Thomas Sayre Biography Sayre is a co-founder of Clearscapes, a design firm that has combined architecture and art to create numerous commissions. Some of his projects include works for the North Carolina School of Math and Science, Durham, NC; Needham Broughton High School, Raleigh, NC and the Atlanta Airport, Atlanta, GA. He has a B.A. degree in English and Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Title, date Encryption, 1997 Artwork, media Sculpture, concrete

Project Description This installation resides in the large lawn area of the interior courtyard of the Old Education Building. Twenty-four black cast concrete columns which represent the twenty-four major cities and towns of North Carolina stand in the courtyard. The varying height of the columns represents the populous of each city or town. They are placed on the lawn in a configuration that represents the geographic location of each city in the state. Binary numbers representing each city's populations are sandblasted onto the sculptures. Pre-selection panel Wesley A. McClure, architect, O'Brien/Atkins Associates, P.A.; David O. Bullock, assistant director, Design And Review, State Construction Office; Bruce Lineker, director, The Light Factory, Charlotte; Jim Hirshfield, associate professor of Art, UNC-Chapel Hill; Chandra Cox, professor of Design, School of Design, NC State University.