Hello friends! The Ekko Mobiles Fan Club (aka Matt’s mom) has expressed concern over this blog’s radio silence. So here’s a quick-ish update with a handful of highlights from the past year. (Don’t worry, Matt’s mom—we’ve been busy around here!)
Last February, we posted renderings to the umbrella ceiling sculpture for a local healthcare clinic. Here’s the finished piece, installed March 2023.
In April, Matt contemplated mobile making from a sailboat in the Bahamas.
In May, we completed this ceiling sculpture for a Washington D.C. office building. The piece, made from fabric stretched over metal frames, hangs 10 feet tall by 8 feet wide.
Matt and Ben traveled to Orlando to install this series of mobiles for a pediatric health clinic near Disney World. The clinic had Finding Nemo licensing, so the mobile incorporates a school of fish, plus an adroable orange Nemo and Marlin. (After this installation, the guys spent an epic day hitting three of the four Disney World parks. Their wives and kids were only moderately jealous.)
Here’s a ceiling sculpture we made for the lobby of a bank in Florida. The piece hangs 8 feet wide by 8 feet tall and was made of powder-coated aluminum tubes.
Here’s Matt, simultaneous admiring the Matterhorn and contemplating mobile making. (And trying to figure out how to get some projects in Switzerland.)
In November, Matt and Ben installed this 40-foot-long ribbon-inspired ceiling sculpture in the private gaming room of the Green Valley Ranch Casino in Las Vegas. (We love the before and after shots!)
Matt and Ben also traveled to Texas in November for this installation. It included 27 sets of individual mobiles spanning the main lobby of Lubbock’s HOPE Tower Hospital.
It was a busy year end! In December, Matt and Ben installed this ceiling sculpture in the entryway lobby of Texas Children’s Hospital in Austin. It includes 75 individual acrylic resin forms.
Texas Children’s was featured on Austin’s local news—with the hospital CEO standing right in front of thew newly installed sculpture! Watch news story
And the art consultant we worked with made a fun Instagram post with a timelapse video of the installation. Watch Instagram video
Here’s Matt contemplating mobile making from Oregon’s Deschutes River region. (And, for good measure, a picture of the entire crew at the start of their quick winter break backpacking trip.)
2024 got off to a running start with an installation at the Traeger Grills headquarters in Salt Lake City. This mobile hangs from an indoor/outdoor seating area. It hangs 20 feet wide by 10 feet tall and is made from translucent acrylic.( Don’t ask how long it took Matt and Ben to get feeling back in their numb fingers after this very cold installation!)
If you’ve made it this far, we’re thoroughly impressed! We’ve got some exciting stuff in the queue this year, so we’ll be sure to check in sooner than later… (We resolve to do better!)