I’m officially done with the first stage of my piece. The frame is complete and now I’ve just got a million other things to get done. The next step is to make plastic coverings for the hexagons that will have lights in them. I’m anticipating that this step will somewhat short and sweet but the next step, installing them, will be quite time consuming. Thank goodness I’ve got a lot of time (in theory at least – it’s amazing how time flies when you’re immersed so completely in something).

I finished my forge building class last week but I’ve still got some work to do on it. We worked on the gas and air supply but now I’ve got to install some ceramic insulation and put it all together. It shouldn’t be too much work, I just need to take time away from Propolis to complete the forge and I have a hard time doing that. I’ll happen.

I also need to submit my piece to Burning Man this weekend so that it’s placed on the map and in all the literature. At that point I’ll be all official and really have to complete this thing (though I’m sure there are quite a few projects that never quite make it to the playa despite the best of intentions).