Nash Hospital Ceiling Sculpture

We've mentioned a few times that we've been working on a cloud-inspired ceiling sculpture for the atrium of North Carolina hospital. We're happy to report that it's all installed. Matt and Ben travelled to the East Coast last week for the installation, and they worked through the night, completing the installation at about 4:30 a.m.

Matt woke up later that morning to this happy text from the client: "The mobile is amazing. I knew it was going to be special but it is beyond that. I am truly speechless. Thank you is not enough!"

Shucks. That kind of feedback makes mobile making totally worth the sleepless nights.

Wall Sculpture Installation

Matt and Ben completed their latest project last Thursday—a static sculpture that crawls from wall to ceiling in the lobby of a brand-new affordable housing development right here in Portland. The piece is made of reclaimed wood slabs, and it spans 10 feet wide by about 10 feet tall.

Here's a before shot of the space:

During:

And—ta da!—the final piece (completed, in true Ekko fashion, in the middle of the night):

Another Local Project!

We have mobiles and sculptures hanging all over the world, but only two in our hometown of Portland. So we're super excited to be working on a third local project! This one is for the lobby area of an affordable housing development.

Due to space constraints, we determined that a static wall/ceiling sculpture would work better than a kinetic sculpture, so we'll be using an empty wall and ceiling space above the residents' mailboxes to create this piece:

We'll use reclaimed wood pieces, which will add warmth to the space and tie in nicely with wood accents in the lobby.  We'll be completing the installation in a couple of weeks, so stay tuned for updates!

Hexagon Mobile Installation

Our Hexagon mobile is finished! Below are final photos of the piece. It hangs from the skylight of a two-story cutout in the headquarters of a San Diego-based pharmaceutical company. The mobile should be happy with all that San Diego sunshine overhead!

Be sure to check out the installation photos, too! The company hired local installers, and we sure enjoyed seeing photographs of someone else doing all that work. We especially liked seeing their attention to detail. (Moving blankets, plastic gloves...installers after our own hearts!)

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Mini Rolling Horizons

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:

Hexagon Mobile, Nearly Finished!

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!

Hexagon Mobile

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!