It seems quite impossible. I have been working on the last healthy reef vignette and when I finished it, I had to sit back and mull over the many feelings I was experiencing. Making pieces of the PNW Community Coral Reef has taken over my life for nearly three years. While we are planning on having this as a traveling exhibit, the actual “making phase” is winding down. I am both sad, happy and excited. Perhaps “confused” is a more encompassing word.
The last healthy vignette stands at waist height and was created from a large block of recycled foam that I split and carved slightly.
I am still working on the last bleached vignette and I hope I won’t have to make too many emergency bleached hyperbolics to fill in the final cracks and crevices.
My goal, while putting the installation together and seeing it in situ is to create a photo book of the process and the finished product so I have an inkling that I will be immersed in this for some time to come.
Between finishing the last corals and creating our list of donors, there are still a few boxes to check. Counting down the days!!!