Tuesday, February 10, 2009

The ThinkTank

The ThinkTank is actually the Canadian Conservation Institute (known to all in the biz as CCI), but for all intents and purposes is pretty much a ThinkTank.  It also has a neckless sailor type thing perched on the porch roof (you can see its back in the photo) and around the corner a ways is a really good Lebanese restaurant.  So it's kind of a ThinkTankIncognito.


My project.  It is 20 inches wide and 12 feet long.  Its also an absolute train-wreck.  Every time I think about it, the only term I can think of to describe it is train-wreck.

 

It is a panorama (obviously) of the City of Medicine Hat, Alberta, from 1912.  Medicine Hat is a large industrial center and also had a gigantic sculptural teepee.


The lab.  No awesome view: the ThinkTank is built as a building inside a building in order for the environmental controls to be as tight as they need to be. 


The project is so big that in order to have my tools and the necessary materials with me as I work on the panorama, I have them all on a little cart, which I haul around with me.

3 comments:

Lea said...

Train wrecks are no fun. But, imagine the satisfaction you'll have when you straighten it out! I like the cart! As speech therapists go, I've been lucky to always have my own "room," but many of my peers have had carts for YEARS!

Mary Ann said...

I can picture you walking along with your little cart fixing all the imperfections along the way.

Ynn said...

Have cart-will travel. It means your are a mobile conservationist. I've known librarians who used book carts to take small parts of their library classrooms for circulation since the actual library was a closet1