Create a public art installation.

“I purchased an outdoor popup carport tent (20'x12') for a couple hundred dollars that I put up in my backyard so that I would have somewhere to weld and create these sculptures. Now that its 100 degrees out I have moved my process into the garage, thankfully. This tent was really a life saver though for most of my project. A majority of my sculptures were built in this space. [...] This project took way longer than expected and took way more out of me. I will definitely be thinking long and hard before taking on another project like this one again in the future. Hundreds of hours of welding, wrapping armatures in a metal skin, mixing a custom cement mix and applying cement definitely changed me as an artist.”

“Finally, equipped with an expensive new air conditioner, I poured about a half inch in each and got what I believed was the clearest coat I could achieve. The pools were sealed. By then my body had been chemically burned from the neck down to my arms. I had cried a bit, not from the pain but from the sheer browbeating impossibility of a project I thought I had figured out. Yet now all was complete, and the pools finally made it to the island just days before they were supposed to arrive. [...] We were battered, beaten, and humbled, but we had finally achieved success.”