It was a tight fit, but today we stuffed Matt inside the pumpkin so he could apply the concrete and then sculpt it to a perfect finish that mimicked the inside of a carved pumpkin. Applying upside down concrete mud is always challenging, but a curved ceiling in a tight space is doubly so. It was a lot like scraping out a real pumpkin. Matt, of course, was up for the challenge and did a fabulous job. He also applied the concrete to the window and door sills and the twisted pumpkin stem. Next week, the crew will do the outside skin, which will make it ready for us to weld the armature for Peter the Pumpkin Eater. Stay tuned as this piece quickly comes together…
Pumpkin wired
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater’s pumpkin armature is now fully wired and ready for the sculpted concrete skin. It won’t be long until we won’t be able to see through it.
The quickest way home
The quickest way home is often not the most direct route. I left Pigeon Forge, Tennessee this morning and traveled by car for about two hours north to Asheville, North Carolina. I then took a two-hour flight northeast to Newark, New Jersey. Now at last I’ll be heading in a westward direction to Vancouver. When I arrive late this evening, I’ll jump in my Jeep for the hour and a half drive east to beautiful downtown Yarrow. And that is the quickest way home.
