How fair is this? I go to the beach for the week with the kids while Casey stays home and pulls all nighters getting ready for the UNC installation. It took him and a small crew 24 hours over 2 days to carry everything up to the 6th floor at lower it to the 5th floor (over the side of the building) and set each piece in place. They carried up 2500lbs of river rocks to use as anchor weights and several sheets of 1/4″ steel for base plates. Not to mention the actual sculptures! I feel a little guilty (and tan) but I did have two kids to manage which is a 24 hour job in itself. Still doesn’t equal out though, dang.
Well, here’s what phase 2 included (see the pics): 2 mushrooms, with caps that sway, topped off with giant butterflies. 3 cattails with 2 dragonflies on top, 1 large daffodil that spins with a butterfly on it’s leaf, 1 small spinning dafodil, and 1 waddling ladybug.
Phase 3 (the final frontier) is coming very soon. The hospital wants to dedicate the garden as soon as possible. Be looking for some ants, caterpillar, and more flowers- but the final pieces have not been set in stone, so this could change.
Let me know what you think!

-also, make plans to see us the first week in July for Festival for the Eno in Durham, NC.

Thanks for reading,
Em

Leave it to us to squeeze every last hour out of a deadline. The 2nd phase for the UNC Children’s Hospital Wind Garden is due June 15th. We are feverishly working around the clock to get everything done. So far we have 2 dragonflies on cattails, a ladybug that waddles, 2 mushrooms with butterflies (the mushrooms bobble in the wind), and 2 spinning daffodils - one with a butterfly on it’s leaf. Now we have to get everything powder coated and painted this week. The engineer came out today to take measurements of all the pieces to tell us what size base plate to make for each one. Basically we will be 5 stories up, unable to bolt anything to the rooftop (where all the sculptures will be displayed), and everything has to move in wind but not blow away during a hurricane. So needless to say, these base plates will have an important roll to play. It’s not all about making fun stuff, it’s a lot of liability too!
Anyway, check out the progress in the pics and stay tuned for pictures of the completed pieces soon!
Thanks for reading,
Em

As promised, here is the link to the news video featuring our latest sculpture. The video clips of us are from a previous story last year. Enjoy!
Hummingbird News story

The Davidson county paper “The Dispatch” ran a short piece too. Check it out!
The Dispatch: One Unique Bird

Well, it’s been many months in the making, but we finally installed the giant hummingbird and daylily sculpture in Welcome, NC.  It took all day, but the new owners are very pleased.  The piece is located outside their gallery “Dempsey’s Place”. 
Our local news station, which has featured  stories on both the gallery and us independantly, is doing a new piece that will air tomorrow featuring the sculpture.  So watch Fox8 WGHP Wednesday May 2 at 5:55pm and again on Thursday’s morning news.  Later in the week the video will be on their website to view and I will provide the link as soon as I can.  Until then, check out the new pics!