We've taken delivery of the vinyl graphics-wrapped lifeboat...

Welding the suspension nuts to the purlins today...

...as we wait for the fancy in-ground lighting we didn't specify...

Spring has arrived with a riotous chorus... 

 ...a chirping reminder to send any field recordings you've made for the lifeboat soundtrack to: clark@artifacture.org 

Thank you!

Some photos from a late winter road trip through Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada and Idaho...

...nice to get away & clear out some of the cobwebs. 

 Checking out construction progress at Edmonds Civic Park...

...our canvas for seawall...

...and location for lifeboat...

 An upper bracket aligns the threaded rod... 

...while offering a structural base for an array of welded oar-holder tubing...

 

 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.