With the administrative phase of the project mostly behind us, the production of is now well under way.
We are immensly grateful to LUIS CRISTIA for complex and detailed architectural drawings, PHIL WALLACE for valued engineering specifications and MALCOLM PRICE for navigating a formidable bureaucracy.
Late 2015 saw a visit to the BORAL stockpile site in Grafton resulting in a delivery of 17 poles to us in January.
Since then, on site at DAVID PIESSE'S property outside Mullumbimby, we have been at work preparing the poles.
They have been pressure cleaned, sanded and undercoated by our volunteer crew, outstanding members of which are LEO MCDONALD and ALAN BASEDOW, and now await the final colour coats.
We anticipate a swelling of the volunteer ranks at this crucial fun stage. Thanks to DULUX and MITRE 10 for the generous support of supplying and mixing the paint. There are 42 colours in the the design in which LISSA MALONEY provided critical design consultation.
In the following weeks, as the whole project culminates, we will be turning the sculpture site on the corner of Burringbar Street and River Terrace, into a construction zone facilitated by AUSTRALIAN SAFETY FENCES.
Local concreter WAYNE WHELAN will be setting the concrete footings and MULLUMBIMBY ENGINEERING will be assuming control of the installation. During that time, for aproximately 2 weeks, the path and cycle way will be diverted to allow proper curing of the concrete.
IT support and photo / video documentation by TEKWIZARD.