I am a finalist for a public art commission in Anchorage Alaska and have submitted my proposals to the committee. Time will tell if I will receive the commission..until then, work continues on "The Discovery".
This stone is for the left arm of "Discovery" The raw block is significantly larger than what I need so two sections will be split off. First the stone is drilled (holes about one foot deep) then metal wedges are placed in the holes between metal devices called feathers. The wedges are hammered in with a large hammer. The feathers act to spread the stone apart. The wedges are hammered again and again and again and again. (you get the idea, a long time)
Then you hear a deep "Thunk" which means the stone has cracked and then it's just a few more hammerings and it splits. Of course it doesn't just fall over like this, a pry bar was involved and a handful of boards before the stone was convinced to "fall over"/
The process is repeated for another section of the stone.
Stone removal on the head has continued as well. These cuts were made with the hydraulic chainsaw.
The stones are piling up around the block. They need to be moved before further work can continue, so...
The pieces of stone are rigged up...
and loaded on the truck. They will taken to the "yard" where the raw stone is kept.
Partially, loaded, just a couple more to go....
We have had unseasonably cold temperatures and it has snowed very late this year. This O'Possum is normally nocturnal but it made a few day time appearances lately, coming to eat the sunflower seed I put out for the birds. I don't mind feeding 'Possums, I think they're kind of cute....
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