Yesterday afternoon Daniel installed the final section of ceiling mosaic on Canopy. We are more than two weeks into the installation process, and the monumental ceiling image is finally complete. Over the next several days, Herbert, Daniel, and Erik will complete the final cleanup and touch-up work on the ceiling and install the mosaics on the 9 1/2 ft. tall, 2 1/2 ft. diameter column that will lead viewers' eyes to the panorama above.
It's impossible for me to photograph the entire ceiling at once, so what I've posted here are some images that will, I hope, give you a sense of its scale and drama. I'll try to put up a few images next week of the column, but I don't imagine that I'll be able to convey adequately a sense of the whole scene. We will have in a professional photographer with greater photographic skills and wider angle lenses, when not only our installation, but the concourse renovation itself, is complete, and I will post images of it then that I hope will do it more justice.
Erik, Herbert, and Daniel -- very tired after more than two weeks' work on the ceiling installation, but triumphant at having the last ceiling section in place.
I keep getting flashbacks of "The Agony and the Ecstasy" when I see these installation images, even though mosaics hearken back to the Byzantine Church.
What a tremendous project; I can hardly wait to take it in when I travel to Anchorage in a week?
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