- Titles The Cause of Communication in Construction (Proper)
- Artist Lonnie Holley, American, born 1950
- Medium tin, phone jack, Alabama Power wire, decorative wire, hex nut, cotton seed, and stick
- Dimensions 61 × 28 × 6 in. (154.9 × 71.1 × 15.2 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Partial gift of Matt Arnett, AFI.238.2018
- Work Type sculpture
- Classification Sculpture
- Provenance 2004, part of a larger work entitled The Wire Wall in Honor of Grandmother’s Way of Power, commissioned by the Birmingham Museum of Art for the exhibition Do We Think Too Much? I Don’t Think We Can Ever Stop; 2006, The Cause of Communication in Construction established as discreet work; 2018 gift-purchase by the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama from the artist, with 50% interest in the work donated by Matt Arnett