Several years ago, we created Rolling Horizons, a 25 foot wide by 24 foot deep mobile of wavy shapes, for a hospital in Virginia. It was a really fun, really intense project.
Well, now we're working with an interior designer to create a scaled-down version for an East Coast accounting firm. This mini-Rolling Horizons will be 6 feet wide by 6 feet, making it really fun. Period.
Here's half of the piece, staged in our shop:
What you're looking at here is the almost-complete Hexagon mobile, hanging in our shop. Don't worry: the mobile won't actually be Drab Brown. All that brown is a protective coating that will be removed upon installation. The mobile will hang below a skylight, so we chose brightly covered acrylic shapes of varying translucency, which should create a colorful, chandelier-like effect.
The mobile hangs 20 feet tall—just right to test-hang from our 20 foot ladder!
Look what we just finished! The mobile for Ride Connection! We started the installation after business hours and finished up at around 3 a.m. It was really fun waking up to an inbox of happy feedback from the Ride Connection folks. (One of our favorites: "It is gorgeous!! It will be a showstopper today!")
The Ride Connection project is starting to come together! Here's the mobile's main component: a bunch of cylinders, which we're currently painting and prepping.
Here's another project in our queue. This mobile will hang in the atrium of a San Diego office building, right below a skylight. The shapes will be traslucent three-dimensional hexagons. Alright, back to work!
As we speak, Matt and Ben are in New York, showing off the Ekko Workshop line at NY Now. It's our very first trade show, and they're meeting buyers from tons of great museum stores, galleries, and gift shops! If you're in area, stop by booth 11014 in the "New!" section at Pier 94.
Here's another project in our queue, and we're extra excited about it, because it's for the new headquarters of a non-profit right here in Portland! The organization, Ride Connection, provides transportation options to those in need, so feel free to interpret those cylindrical shapes as wheels.
A few months ago, we worked with H. Marion Art Consulting to provide a fish-themed mobile to a children's hospital in Chicago. The art consultants included a great write-up about the project on their blog. Read it here!
This lovely tubing will make the skeleton for the cloud-inspired sculpture we're working on. Stay tuned for progress!
Here a rendering of another project we're working on these days:
This mobile (shown in several several color variations) will ship overseas to a corporate building in Germany. It will hang 9 feet wide by 9 feet tall, and each piece will spin on the vertical axis. The client requested something very modern, and we think these clean lines and bold colors fit the bill!