Lifting Concrete....

Last night, Kevin & I met at Mom & Dad's (aka my other workspace & storage yard) to mount the concrete slabs into the steel supports. This is a project for A20 Fitness; a new facility opening this month in downtown Boise. We are doing a sculptural installation in the front of the building to cover an old fence, & doing a matching table & benches for the back patio area. The concrete is reclaimed--the slabs would have gone to the landfill, if we hadn't taken them... So, they are being re-incarnated into artwork! There will be 3 panels in a grouping, with insulator planters as accents(another recycled treasure). The windows of each panel will have glass spheres mounted with cable, for some sparkle, & the concrete will be stained a mahogany color with a few green accents....

cant wait to color!
Tonight, we will drill into the concrete for permanent anchors to the steel, Dad will pressure wash them, & I'll start staining tomorrow---cant wait to do some experimenting with the color!

I'm really excited about this project---it's going to look amazing when done, & to be able to use so much recycled content is awesome :) I love the concrete slabs standing up--they almost become their own sculpture... Thanks goodness we have the old crane truck--I couldn't even think about doing projects like this without it!

Will post more progress pics tomorrow.

Yesterday's creations

Made these two yesterday, I like them both, the bearing stack-up is not exactly an original idea, but I still like it... The other one is made of the cutout scraps from the public art project from this spring; I think it turned out really nice...I'll get some better pics today.

Hmmmm, what am I going to do today??? I'm running pretty low on building materials right now, although I keep seeming to come up with different ideas.... The scrap yards have nothing right now: steel prices have dropped so much that no one is bringing anything in! Prices were soo good this summer, that the market got flooded with scrap steel, which caused the price to drop dramatically---everyone is expecting it to come back up withing a few months though. For now, I guess I'll just have to get more creative with what I've got, & expand my searching areas...

Tonight, we will be working on the project for A20 Fitness---we got the steel supports back yesterday, have to drill them tonight & take them into Mom's house (aka my other work zone & storage area) Hopefully we can put the concrete into them so I can get it stained next week.... More on that project later.....

The Pioneers

- and now - this wonderful picture from Barbara. Not sure its industrial history - but!! Barbara who are this daring young couple on their amazing machine! and is that Pelton Road.

(any help on enlarging this picture without distortion from a techie somewhere would be welcome)

hmmmm.....

ok, so it looks like something out of nightmare before christmas..... dont know about this one....

Where are these

More of Barbara's pictures - where are they of? what's the date?

Winner Winner, chicken dinner!

Just found out that I was the winner, by popular vote, of the Recycled Art Show last weekend. Thanks to everyone who voted!! The benifit apparently raised 5K; a huge success!!




And, this week it was announced that I'm a finalist for the Meridian City Hall project... I'll be among 3 artists who will do a proposal for a new atrium sculpture-for the brand new city hall. This one moves really fast; proposals due by Oct 17th, one will be picked from the 3, & then it will be installed by next spring. I'm really crossing my fingers; it will be a fun one to do; a hanging installation in a 3 story atrium in front of a wall of windows....more details on that later...got to get to work now :)

Siemens vehicle

Barabara from Charlton has sent the following picture. Any comments please??