POWELLS
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 Our clients Lloyd and Sharon Powell (that's Lloyd on the left) were not killed. Was it our fault it came down? Probably. After this day all other challenges seemed minor. |
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 Day 1  The Powells live a couple of houses down from my mom at the Boulders in Carefree. I first met them when they bought some Burning Man images John Romero and I donated to the Phoenix Art Museum for a Contemporary Forum auction.
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 I thought the driveway was too big and a dopy shape so we cut it up and sandblasted it. The adobe buff slump pavers were used on all their original patios and walks. |
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 Day 6  They live at the Boulders and a giant boulder is just what we found a few inches under the ground when we started to layout a new path thru the front yard. We jack hammered through three feet of solid rock and ended up with a flat path that's "real" stone.
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 Day 14
 The address bench is backed with the same translucent mica we use to make the lanterns. Doug Vance at Metal Works cut the numbers on a water jet table.
We cored through the rock to get a second light fixture installed below the mica lantern pointing down as a path light into a cave-like alcove. |
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 Day Done
The mosquito coil guardrail wasn't a code requirement at less than 30 inches but the fall into the rocks looked like an accident in waiting.
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| HAMMERS AND NAILS |
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 Lloyd Powell is a retired General Contractor. I thought we could make cube sculptures of hammers and nails where newel posts might have gone. The best place to find used hammers is the flea market on 55th Avenue, north of Missouri in Glendale. It's 95% Mexican and hopping. The swap meet at the dog track on Washington is a ghost town compared to it.
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 We made a hinged box on wheels to keep everything lined up. I thought I could re-use it to make more assemblage sculptures al la Arman, an artist Laurie Lundquist told me about. We were able to visit him in his studio before he died, on a Spirit of the Senses trip to New York. I love the idea of grouping similiar objects together.
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 The nails are 60d size. They're the only big nail/spike that's readily available. They're used with plastic tassles called "chasers" or "feathers" to mark underground utilities where trucks need to be able to drive over them.
We're working on their backyard now. Need to get it done in 10 days before they disappear for the summer. A very white spa sits in the middle of a very black pool. A future newsletter. |
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