The Force was with us.
(photograph by Marcin Pikus)
(photograph by Marcin Pikus)
Carefully placing the first and largest section of the trailer for the trip to Roanoke.
Emmett Lodge deftly operating our crane in loading the narrow-necked steel sculpture.
Emmett Lodge and Marcin Pikus consider safe and strategic rigging for safely hoisting the narrow-necked steel sculpture.
August 2011: Robert Lodge, Emmett Lodge and Curtis McCartney prepare to lift FORCE ONE for bolting onto its temporary timbers.
Weathering steel (Cor-ten) must be stored outdoors with full and even exposure. Thus the sculpture needed to be stored erect. For temporary storage the sculpture was bolted to heavy timbers.
FORCE ONE erected for long-term storage.
On Sunday, August 26, 2018, FORCE ONE was returned to its original placement and on its original concrete footer.
Back in its original location, FORCE ONE awaits landscaping.
April 2000: sculpture conservator Thomas Podnar elevated the bottom of the sculpture by welding on steel "feet" to keep the steel bottom slightly above landscape mulch to prevent advancing corrosion.