Chicken, no foam core

 I've not been cooking much. For the past two weeks, but have been making large portions of stew or chili or whatever and eating it for multiple meals as we worked. Today I actually barbequed a chicken! Had coffee with mom and Lori in the morning. Basically normal day. 

Heather Cline party

 

I had no time or energy to make perogies this year, so we had to suffer with simply eating at Heather's party this year. Lovely time, but I did make us leave by 9:00 as I could barely stand. We stopped at Neutral Ground and looked at the artwork at night on the way home. 

Install complete

 

Geremy arrived at one. William was just finishing the furnace room and we were figuring out what order the boxes would go in. Geremy knew how to put up the vinyl letters, so that was a life saver. We put the boxes in one at a time. They needed to be put through the small doorway in the glass case, then rotated 90 degrees, then situated and the lights placed in the holes at the top, and the repeated. One stack at a time, with lights between each of the four stacks. There are seven stacks. We got them in place by five. 

Assembling boxes completed

 Today we finished 27 of the 28 boxes with the final one, the furnace room, nearly done. To tired to finish. 

Assembling boxes

 

Into the gallery

 With help from Lori and Al, we got all of the boxes into the space. Only one of them actually has the artwork inside it already. The rest we need to locate objects and characters from our collections and put them in place and glue them. Today we did little more than sort. It seems that about 30 characters are still at home, waiting for some spray glue. 

Portrait of the king

We have printed off photos of the bird people king using the Canon Ivy printer I bought William for Japan that he was too exhausted to use while there. Each portrait of the king is the from the same source image but the background is changed and many are zoomed in or reversed. Each room will likely have a portrait hanging in it with those portraits being photographic while the characters in the scene are drawings.  
 

Delusions cut in

We've been working on this project for 10-12 hours per day for a couple of weeks now without a break. Sometimes I look at pictures we have taken and have no way of interpreting what is going on. What are these numbers William has? Probably make sense to him.