ArtMetal

I finally installed a piece this week that we have been working on for a year or so- I actually got the job in 2004- but fabrication was really just since September or so.

3 modern totems, the two outer ones are 15 feet tall and about 8 feet wide, the middle one is 18 feet tall.
Each about 1500lbs of stainless steel, with forged detailing, but mostly just cold bent and tig welded.
Built in smaller sections, sent out to be electropolished, then welded together.
We transported them whole, all three at once, two on a trailer and one on the flatbed of the crane truck, dropped em right onto the bolt imbeds in the concrete footings, and were done on site within an hour or so.

The site is right downtown Seattle, on the edge of the business district, the 900 block of Pine street, next to the Paramount Theater.

It was a public art project, funded by Sound Transit, the local light rail line.

Eat Drink and be merry

Loading up at home- gotta love seeing a big heavy thing fly thru the air-
Loading up Be Merry

Dropping it in place
setting down Be Merry