Art Installation "Arizona!"

Name an art project that you have been involved with that included over 200 people working over 6650 hours on?  I don’t think too many times a project of this magnitude is undertaken and complete in under a year and a half!

Today was a marvellous gathering to view the art installation "Arizona!".  Husband and wife architecture team, Choi and Shine, led a small group of us through "Canal Convergence" in Scottsdale, Arizona and explained the entire process from conception to completion of their art installation "Arizona!"  

The entire installation is 600 feet long by 8 feet tall. The installation process of hanging a 2500 pound sculpture is an engineering feet!  (I think Don was more interested in the installation than the crocheted lace work.)

I am proud to be involved in this project by crocheting 36 feet of Strip 2 which runs at the top and bottom of the design. There was a total of over 100 crocheters involved in the project. 

Inside the loop area where you can get up close to the crocheted lace. You feel like you are a bride with a veil on looking through to other far away pieces of the enormous sculpture. 

From a distance the sculpture looks like a ribbon of lace. (The pink octopus looking blob is a different sculpture in the background.)

Here the curving lace ribbon reflects on the canal water. In the dark foreground Thomas Shine is explaining the sculpture to our group. 

This last photo shows Barb (a Fibre friend from Alberta who also volunteered to crochet) and I in front of a sample of the crochet lace ribbon.