Difficulty in procuring stone. Design evolution- new joints between tube sleeve joints. Outer edge to be endlessly varied rather than just chopped. Fundraising- Building list and package. coverletters, gate photos; press releases, 3D model, website, Glass- Founding of studio. Intense exploration of of a synthesis of stone, metal, light, and glass. A native palette buit around the greenishness in glass, the warm glow of limestone, and the silver or maroon rust of galvanized or weathered ironwork. The dark notes are the cool green-blackof unbacklit glass, the dark stains on limestone, and warm walnut of rust. Candidate names for studio- Bonanza, Mecca, Jerusalem, Stone Delivery- April 13 Discovery channel- Eight monstrous quarry blocks arriving on four semis and unloaded by 40 ton crane.
April 1st Submission to PARD/NAPT of Airport Sculpture documentation Project Progress and Status- Stonecarvers (Ambray, Joseph, David, Sue-Ann) made several trips to the quarry in March and the stones were finally selected and reserved. Delivery to Austin is set to coincide with coverage by The Discovery Channel in mid-April. Selection of specific stones enables exact dimensions, rather than loose assumptions, to be used in design/engineering development. Terry Ortiz, P.E. has been ongoingly accumulating design documents and making suggestions. A meeting is set for Fri., April 3, to finalize structural submission for Monday delivery. Mario Garza is recieving a package of final design detail on April 1, in substantial conformity with the April 3 version. Zoltan Mezaros has begun a 3-D computer model of sculpture based on existing documents. This effort picks up from Santos's VRML model prepared, but not presented, in during February/March. This model will be ongoingly developed as a web browsable virtual realty space at www.polycosmos.org/creation/tejana.wrl . Revised Timeline- Engineer's Sealed Drawings- April 3 Stone Shop Delivery- April 13 Delivery to Airport- March 15 (subject to NAPT specifiation of exact time & date in coordination with trucking & crane service.) Revised Budget- Notes: a) costs are estimated, subject to discount or donation, b) savings and donations reduce inkind burden on project artists, c) educational outreach based on project work helps underwrite production. Expenses- Stone Expense- 3800 Trucking & Crane Services- 5000 Steel Expense- 5000 Galvanizing- 1000 Metal Shop Expenses- 12000 Stone Shop Expenses- 12000 Unskilled Contract Labor- 25000 TOTAL- 63800 Income- Educational Outreach- 23800 Fundraising- 10000 COA Production Phase- 30000 TOTAL- 65000 In-Kind Artistic Service (est.) 200000 Comparable Market Value (wholesale) In-Kind + 63800 = 263800 Notice of Pending Issue- Early in the sculpture design process the City of Austin, in official meetings, clearly offered and committed to providing a suitable base for the sculptures that would raise them out of their sunken planter boxes (Christiansen declined this offer, Santos/Perez accepted it, with AIPP & NAPT landscape & architecture consultants present). NAPT officials recently stated that they were unaware of such a committment. Belatedly requiring the artists to provide such a base would constitute an unreasonable and unfair burden on the project, so the artist team hereby requests a review of the record, and suggests that NAPT contingency funds cover this situation based on the apparent misunderstanding.