Mari's Fire will be placed at Les Shirley Park in Cannon Beach for a year and then moved to its permanent location at an artist retreat being developed in nearby Arch Cape.

The "wing" moves and Mari's Fire sets off on a new journey.

Linley describing the process of creation of the sculpture.

Ann explaining glass elements.

Eeva and Marsha unveiling Mari's Fire.

Eeva starting the unveiling celebration.

Mari's Fire Unvieling Celebration 3-22-10

The design for Mari's Fire was finalized at Ecola Park on the fall equinox and the sculpture unveiled at DragonFire Gallery on the spring equinox. Mari's Fire celebrates the life and contributions of an incredible woman Mari Rockett. Through this creative collaborative process we learned much about ourselves, each other, and our art. So will people viewing Mari's Fire as they relate to it in their own personal manner. As Mari's Fire will endure so will our insights, learning, and friendships.

And here it is in one piece!

Adding the top section.

Bolting sculpture sections together.

A fabulous moving crew - whew, 500 lbs of artistic creation.

Eeva meets Linley and Arnie before business opens so Mari's Fire can be unloaded, placed and veiled.

Sculpture loaded into the back of Arnie's truck for the trip to Cannon Beach. The sculpture was moved in three pieces. Each piece wrapped and secured separately.

Ta Da! Mari's Fire Unveiling Today!

The glass is in all three sides!

Mari's Fire - Fire side with out the top sculpture elements.

Ann adding wind shield rope to help hold and cushion the glass.

Linely and Ann securing bottom glass sections into the sculpture.

Glass ready to go to Juno for Clear Sheild application.

Some hand cold working tools used to smooth and shape edges in preparation for clear coating.

The mid sections were fused onto vanilla glass. Re-fusing glass once the final piece has been made has some risks involved as illustrated here. The glass pushed a kiln dam out which allowed it to flow. This was corrected by cutting the piece into its original size with a tile saw.

Building the top pieces.

Trays for the top sections of glass. These were built on french vanilla glass for interior light defusion.

Week 23 - The finishing details

The last two weeks have been spent in the finishing details: fusing a backing glass to the middle and top sections of glass to defuse the interior lights; taking the glass to Juno to be coated with Clear Shield; making sure the electrical works within the interior after the glass is placed; securing the glass with bolts, clips and wind shield rope; final clean up and powder coat inspection which has resulted in paint touch up; deciding how to wrap and cushion for transportation to Cannon Beach; getting ready at Cannon Beach with helpers to move the sculpture in place for the unveiling; and getting ready for the unveiling celebration.
Mari's Fire will be unveiled Saturday, March 20th at 3:00 in front of DragonFire Gallery in Cannon Beach Oregon. You are all invited to see the result of the collaborative venture of Linley and Ann!

The Parks and Recreation Committee who heard the Mari's Fire proposal. The committee has refered the proposal to the Sculpture with out Walls committee for a final decision.

Cannon Beach City Hall.

Inspection of concrete pad at a possible placement site.

Checking for level with a plywood template of the base of Mari's Fire.

Measuring the height of the Mari's Fire in front of the Dragon Fire Gallery where it will be place for a week after the initial unveiling celebration March 20th.

We may have an opportunity to have Mari's Fire displayed in a public venue prior to its permanent location at the artist retreat in Arch Cape.

A view from a possible sculpture site.

Linley is holding the light fixture that will be attached to the top of the mid section. Because of the difficulty defusing the internal light, the center and top glass sections will be fused to translucent glass.

A view of the bottom light fixture affixed to the bottom of the sculpture. Two concerns needed to be dealt with 1) defusing the light to all three glass panels 2) dealing with the possible debris that might land in the bottom of the sculpture.

Linley pointing out the wiring.

Week 22- Internal Lighting

The past week has been one of interesting details and learning: deciding on the internal lighting (which needed to be decided on prior to having the sculpture powdercoated), presenting before the Cannon Beach Parks and Recreation Committee to propose placing Mari's Fire in a public location for up to a year, checking out sculpture placement possibilities including the unveiling celebration on March 20th.

Changing the order of the sections.

The three glass mid section together to see how they flow.

Fire is in the middle in metal.

Air

Close up detail found in the air midsection.

Air midsection back lit.

Air - bottom and mid section together.

In the kiln.

Changing the start of the air section - there were many trials before the final design was decided on.

Starting air mid section.

Week 21- Air

The next few weeks will consist of the following activities: working with the electrician to provide the right internal lighting, adjusting the brackets that hold the glass, powder coating the metal, finishing the top three glass panels, and coating the glass to withstand the coast weather elements.

Ann

Barrie with two sides of Mari's Fire-fire and water.

Problem solving.

Eeva and Kim check out the progress of Mari's Fire.

Fire elements in the metal sculpture.

Powder coat color- all metal that will be placed outside needs to be powder coated to protect it from rust.

Linley and Barrie fitting the bottom and mid sections.

One issue to take care of is how to fit three pieces of glass into the metal structure.