We just got this images of the mobile we recently installed at the Ambassador Health System facility in Omaha. We love how it looks in its entryway atrium!
Upwardly Mobile in Neighborhood Notes
A Portland blogger did a great write up on local mobile artists, including yours truly.
Omaha
It's no secret that our photography skills need some work. So for this picture, we're keeping it real. You get to see our attempt at a decent shot of our latest piece...with the shop in its full glory in the background.
This piece hangs 15 feet tall, and Matt is headed to Omaha next week to install it in an existing hospital's newly completed atrium lobby.
Harpo Studios
Four summers ago, back when Matt was a one-man shop working out of the garage of his townhome, he completed a mobile for Harpo Studios. The mobile looked beautiful, but unfortunately, these were the only images captured of the piece:
Cute, but not exactly portfolio worthy, right?
So imagine our surprise when just this week, we got these beautiful images of the piece in its real-life home at Harpo! Thanks Oprah & friends!
Copper Vs. Cardboard
Remember the cardboard model we mentioned back in March? Here's the final product. This is for a fellow in California whose home has a lot of copper elements, so we incorporated a good mix of copper, silver, and black shapes into this original design. The piece hangs 9 feet wide by 6 feet tall and moves freely with the slightest current.
Seeking a Good Home
In this photo, Matt is making final adjustments on a scaled-down mobile model we recently pitched to a local library. The library folks opted for something much less modern, so now this new design needs a good home. Any takers? The final piece was designed to be 18 feet tall by 10 feet wide, but we can tweak dimensions (and colors and just about everything else) to suit your space. Let us know!
Glamour Shots
Our friends at the Rockingham Hospital sent along these photos. Aren't they lovely?
(Man, photography skills make us jealous.)
Our Neighbors to the North
Here's a mobile we shipped to Canada a few weeks back. It hangs 12 feet tall by 4 feet wide and will reside in a Tortonto office building.
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
The Good: The Rockingham mobile made it safely to Harrisonburg. So did Matt and Ben.
The Bad: The installation proved trickier than anticipated. Matt and Ben had to install mounting points above the drop-grid ceiling. As pictured below, they spent a lot of time in the underbelly (or rather upperbelly?) of the hospital. In the end, the install required working 40 nonstop hours. 40 hours! (It's tiring just thinking about that.)
The Beautiful: The mobile. We're so happy with it!
Harrisonburg or Bust
Well, our Rockingham mobile is officially en route to Harrisonburg, Virginia. To streamline things, we crated and shipped it directly from our powder coater’s shop. It’s hard to tell in that last photo whether Matt’s (temporary) farewell to the piece is teary, nerve-wracked, or just plain relieved…
