Whale Watch in the Twilight Hours

Well, the duration in time between blog posts may give you an idea as to the state of my life over the past few weeks.  Things with my family went from bad to worse and then worse still.  Days were spent away, and one week felt like a year. 

Back at the studio though, progress was being made by Tony who was busy helping with the construction of the panels to make the whale.  Thank goodness too, because now I am behind but not impossibly so.  In reality, a ton of work has happened in the past two weeks.  The whale went from being 31 "ribs", 8 sheets plywood, and over 60 handmade brackets to what actually looks like a whale placed onto 8 separate panels.  After an all-nighter with loads of people pitching in, everything is pretty much paper mached.  In reality though, if it weren't for all of the help I have received, there is no way I would have gotten done.  I also realized that it would have been completely impossible for me to do this all by my onesy like I had thought I would.

Me and helpers Jackie, Carolyn and Helen doing paper mache.

The whale set up in the warehouse.

Work is going to continue well into the night tonight and the next few nights.  The main objective now is to tie up the lose ends and cover the whale with the whale meat labels so it can be ready to install on Sunday evening.