As you can see, the site has a slight gradient, so part of today’s mission was to measure the grade and come up with a plan for the best way to ensure that the statue will end up level despite the slight drop. If we did not properly level the base, the statue would end up leaning 4 inches out of kilter at the top of it’s 8 ft height.
We were also looking at the arrangement of the base to the building and to prospective light, since we want to get the stained glass effect from the Kokomo Opalescent Glass Inserts as much as possible.
An interesting lesson we learned with the Infernal Device installation is that any public art is just that– very public.
