Back on March 13, I received a call from Nathan Zamarron of LexArts. He wanted to lease my "River of Music" bench for an 18 month temporary outdoor sculpture show in Lexington. 2 days later the state of Kentucky was shut down and that was put on hold. Things got back on track and he contacted me last week to resume the lease (with option to buy) AND the City of Lexington made a direct purchase of another functional sculpture, "Battery Bench". Well worth the wait...
On Thursday, September 17, Dereck Sheroan of JBB, Inc. brought the 23 ton crane truck to help me deliver and install the 2 functional sculptures. We started with the 5,600 lb. River of Music Bench.
While we got set up, Meg took lots of pictures of dew-covered flowers. All of the pictures on this post are by Meg White.
We loaded the large piece first...
... and then the smaller piece. The dew-covered spider web in the foreground looks awesome.
We met Nathan in Lexington at the site and discussed how to proceed.
A drone is above the crane truck taking video and there is another person with a high-quality video camera on a tripod documenting the whole event.
Dereck got the truck into position and set up the crane.
I rigged the piece up...
... and set it on the provided concrete pad.
Next, we installed the purchased bench in a temporary site. I'm looking up to watch clearance of an overhead power line - we stay away from those as far as possible.
Always glad to have extra help when setting pieces.
This is the Battery Bench which now is part of the collection of the City of Lexington. The only thing left for us to do was make the 3 hour trip home. It was a very long and stressful day - but everything worked out just fine.
