The next step is to wrap the whole sculpture in wire mesh. The mesh is cut into lengths, wrapped around each pod and then tightened to fit snugly by twisting the wire with pliers, as Mark is doing here.
This process is repeated 3 times with different grades of mesh
and is a fiddly, time-consuming job.
Meanwhile, Grant was fibre-glassing the centre twists of the sculpture to strengthen it as a lifting point. When the sculpture needs to be moved and installed, this is where the straps will go to lift it with a crane, and so it needs some heavy duty reinforcement to prevent cracking.
These two are never far away. They spend a fair bit of the day rolling around playing and stirring up the dust.
Job done. It is nice that the project goes in steps that can be completed. Each new step is looked forward to and then by the end, the workers have had enough. I think Mark would be happy to not be twitching wire again for a very long time.
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| Afternoon smoko. |
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