Here’s another fun project in our queue. This ceiling sculpture will hang in a hospital on an American airbase in Korea. It will include 30 individual shapes strung together, and it will span about 20 feet tall by 20 feet wide. The design was intended to have a very organic, dynamic feel, reminiscent of coral, mossy trees, or tree branches blooming in spring. We’re looking forward to seeing this come together!
Kissimmee Bird Ceiling Sculpture
Now that travels have temporarily ceased, we’re getting hyper focused on a few upcoming projects. Here’s one we’re creating for a new hospital in Kissimmee, Florida. This will suspend from the ceiling of a waiting area. The birds range from 24- to 32-inches in wingspan, and together they’ll nicely fill the space.
Installation #2 at BARC Cattery
After the installation at Vanderbilt, Matt and Ben headed straight to Houston for the second installation of the week. This series of ceiling panels was installed at a new cattery for Houston’s premier animal shelter and adoption center. The installation included 16 panels of 5 foot by 3 feet ovals, formed into convex and concave shapes. The panels were designed to represent a tree canopy.
The installation went smoothly—and no feline were present to aggravate Matt’s cat allergies. And Matt and Ben are looking forward to not traveling for the foreseeable future!
Double-Header Installation Week
Matt and Ben returned from Disneyland and promptly returned to the airport for TWO back-to-back installations last week. The first was this paper chain people ceiling sculpture for the lobby of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Everything went seamlessly, hallelujah, and we love how welcoming it looks from the entryway!
Happy Workiversary!
This summer marked ten years of Matt and Ben making mobiles together! To celebrate, they took a break from their installations—involving physically demanding 16-hour days—to visit Disneyland with their families, where they logged physically demanding 16-hour days. But nobody in this group minds 16-hour days that involve churros, dole whips, sunshine, and Splash Mountain on repeat.
Lobby Sculpture Installation
Whew. The lobby sculpture for the Jersey City high-rise apartment is complete, and it was an intense installation. Let’s just say, there’s no quick, easy way to string up 5,000 individual shapes. (Believe us, we’ve brainstormed.)
Matt and Ben ended up staying an addition day to complete the installation, but they’re so happy with the end result. The piece definitely adds pops of color the client requested!
Medical City Ceiling Sculpture Video
The folks at Medical City Heart Hospital in Dallas made a fun time-lapse of our video last week. (You can tell Ben logged a lot of steps that day!)
We also loved this note they e-mailed us: “Thank you so much for all your work to complete our lobby installation in time for the opening event. The mobile is beautiful and has exceeded our expectations for the space. It sets the right tone to welcome our patients and visitors and was right on time and on budget.”
Lobby Sculpture Progress
Matt and Ben are in New Jersey this week installing this lobby sculpture in a brand-new high-end apartment building. It’s gonna be a full week. Normally installations take a day or two, and they’ve scheduled four full days to complete this one!
These pictures show some of the staging process. It’s not terribly exciting, but getting everything organized up front makes the process much more efficient. The last photo is a sneak peek into the final piece!
Medical City Ceiling Sculpture
Our first installation of four is complete! This was a ceiling sculpture for Medical City Dallas Hospital.
Here’s a before shot, as Matt and Ben got all the shapes organized and staged:
And here’s final piece:
Bon Voyage
Our next four weeks include: four installations in four different cities, a weekend camping trip (to celebrate Matt’s son’s 9th birthday!), and a joint family vacation for Matt’s and Ben’s families. We’re not sure it’s all humanly possible, but we’re about to find out! Stay tuned…