Moving Day! Today we moved the base & tower from the workshop to my studio.

Final construction will be in the garage - the only spot large enough
to accommodate the sculpture.

Meanwhile, in the studio, I finished design and assembly of the last panel. As soon as the paint is dry on the base, we can start moving everything into place!

Panel #3 is complete. 4 weeks until the container leaves Philly for Black Rock City!

Moving Along

Two sides are complete! Well, as complete as they can be prior to the playa. I have to build to ship, which means some things need to be secured after getting there.

Details of Side #2

The bird structure is finished, he just needs a paper mache coating.

EPSONS are back!

The EPSON prints came back, so i took a break from this http://kksd09.blogspot.com/ to work on this! The the quality of the prints is so beautiful, I'm going to have a hard time "covering them up."

Will he find a place? Probably : )

Each panel takes about a day to dry... one more day to go.

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I designed the 4 panels' foundation images, and they are currently being printed out on a large format printer - 44 inches x 7 feet! As soon as these are back, they can be mounted to the panels, and then the fun begins.

BASE 90% Complete

The base is 90% complete. These pics show the framing of the tower finished - all that's left are some more L-brackets to secure it even more against the winds on the playa.

These pics show how the sidewalls will lay against the tower frame. Two are shown; once all four are on, you won't even see the frame!

Octovishnu lends a helping tentacle again : )

PLATFORM / SIDEWALLS

Erik, Tom, Douglas & I made good progress on the frame today. The platform is pretty much finished; the sidewalls as well.

Finishing up the sidewalls.

Unnderside of the platform.

Topside!

Two of the four sides "in place" with a helping tentacle from Octovishnu!

CHAOTIC RECKONING

Erik, John and I spent all day at the warehouse working on dual Burning projects; Chaotic Harmony and the kinetic sculpture, The Sand Reckoner:

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Today's goal was to get all 4 sidewalls constructed out of 4x8 sheets of plywood, with 4 siderails on each, for interior support.

lumber awaits

Cutting 8' lengths to 4'.

Repeat 16 times.

Completed side. Tomorrow is cutting each of the 4 panels into the obelisk shape.
4' across the bottom, tapering to 3' at the top.

Superimposed background graphic -
this should look pretty good once it's on for real!

HUNTING AND GATHERING

I hit the Fazio's Scrapyard and found yummy buttons and gauges...

Onto a flea market: EXIT signs, dinosuars, and rubber stamp handles

I decoupaged the handles with an evolution of freshwater snail shells:

(source material for decoupage)

A portion of my stock of treasures:

Just a couple of the several bird cages my Mom picked up for me: