Heavy stainless steel threaded rod will suspend the boat from a ceiling purlin...

...via welded hex hi-nuts...

We're making headway with fabrication now...

Building the structural framework with aluminum channel...

Welding the cross-brackets to the central spine...

 ...and attaching the structural flanges to the hull with epoxy and rivets. 

Final layout for seawall is color-coded to map areas of joint human/fauna habitation mostly in riparian zones and other watersheds...

Water is life.

Working on final layouts and creating vector files for lifeboat...

The design incorporates over 50 species of Pac NW plants, animals and microbes woven as a 'web of life' that will cover the hull as an intricately-patterned sculptural graphic.

 

Our CDs provide a detailed plan for fabrication of the suspension infrastructure for lifeboat...

 This caught my eye this morning.

McDonald’s efforts to capture ‘the oceans’ memory’ parallels the intent of cascadia’s ‘lifeboat’ sound collage that we’re composing with field recordings…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/19/microphones-dropped-into-ocean-off-greenland-to-record-melting-icebergs

Collecting materials is a bit of a challenge with supply chain and shipping issues, but we're slowly collecting everything we need for fabrication of lifeboat...

We're beginning to collect field recordings now.

If you'd like to contribute any bird songs, other animal noises, elemental background (water, wind, etc) or anything nature-related to the sound collage I'm composing (to be housed inside lifeboat), please send mp3 files to:

clark@artifacture.org

Thanks!

https://www.bird-sounds.net/california-towhee/

 Spent a few hours at Birdfest this past weekend collecting input for lifeboat flora/fauna imagery. 

Adding these to the previous compilations, we're now closing in on 60 Pacific NW plants and animals...

Chickadee (2)—

Bald Eagle (2)—

Great Blue Heron (3)—

Big-leaf Maple—

Cattail—

Vine Maple—

Skunk Cabbage—

Western Red Cedar—

Anna’s Hummingbird—

Salal—

Coyote—

Caspian Tern—

Bittern—

Towhee—

Varied Thrush—

Black Oystercatcher—

Otter—

Rough-skinned Newt—

Long-toed Salamander—

Red Alder—

Douglas Fir—

Black Cottonwood—

Pacific Tree Frog—

Banana Slug—

Blue/Green Darner Dragonfly—

Garter Snake—

Mourning Cloak Butterfly—

Osoberry (Indian Plum)—

Camas—

Cedar Wax Wing—

Calendula—

Redwood—

Salmonberry—

developing a flora/fauna list

Over the past month we've been receiving ideas for plants and animals to be included in lifeboat hull pattern imagery...

Stellar Jay

Anna’s Hummingbird

Belted Kingfisher

Osprey

ferns - varieties

moss - varieties

huckleberry

sedges - varieties 

crows

salmon

Pacific Wren

owls - varieties

falcon

woodpeckers - varieties

sparrows - varieties

Western Bluebird

slugs

clams

starfish

frogs - varieties

jackrabbit

Orcas

seals

...and Sasquatch (there's one in every crowd)

To add to our burgeoning list, send flora/fauna names or images to: 

clark@artifacture.org