Watch this short video that shows our current progress towards completing the sculpture.

After what seemed like an eternity of cutting and shaping pink foam, I’m happy to say that the sculpture’s base has been formed and is now ready for fiberglass and finishing!

I'm happy to report that all the cutting and assembling of the lower trunk is complete.  It's all ready for final, detail sculpting and fiberglass.

We had a party…

The Archeon sculpture is built around a large, steel truss. The truss supports the foam and fiberglass trunk as well as the large flower atop the structure.

We hosted our first guest artist, Jennifer Reed from Brooklyn, this weekend and she hammered out three beautiful flower buds in the workshop.

The sculpture base is constructed and now being finished.

I am happy to announce that with the recent additions to our team, that we have a group capable of delivering The Archeon project at a really high level! 

Now that the final scale model is complete, we used photogrammetry to capture its form and bring it back into the computer for the next phase of construction, which is modeling the form at full scale and cutting shapes on the cnc router.

This post is about the software, hardware and electronics that control the sounds, light animations, harmony detection, flower movement, laser firing, etc... all the entertainment and interactions that allow the sculpture to create the emotional experience of connection between the two participants.

This post is a dive into the physical structure, power supply and electronics that support the Archeon sculpture.

Different voices singing in harmony can create beautiful melodies not possible in solo performances.

Hurray! The visual design is complete enough to start working!

Base and Stem are mostly designed. Check it out!

Getting my head of of the computer for a few minutes… see what I made.

Updated messaging… we are ready to go public!

Building an English wheel… a great tool to make curved, metal panels.

Hmmmm… perhaps make it more like this…

Playing with LEDs and cutting aluminum sheets… prototypes to aid the design and development process.