Day 1 in Lawrenceville

Yesterday was my first day working in Lawrenceville and it was delightful. Unfortunately, I don't have too many photos for you, as I spent the entire day working hard and chatting with visitors who were all quite curious and friendly. I'll definitely try to take more pics today! If you really want to see what I'm up to though, you should just come by and say hi!

So here's my setup. The bench, which will later be part of the final sculpture, served as a great invitation for passersby to sit with me and chat, which was great.

As far as my progress on the sculpture is concerned, the first day went well. After spending some time figuring out the construction of the piece, which resulted in a few boring pieces of cardboard that you can see below and a couple sketches that no one would want to see anyway, I started the top (or bottom depending on how you look at it) of the pine cone.

The beginnings of the giant pine cone!

I had many visitors promise to return to check on my progress. And I wouldn't be surprised if people become more interested as my pile of cardboard starts to look like something.

Anyway, I promise to take some pictures of these awesome visitors so it doesn't look like I'm all alone all day! Hope to see you out there sometime this week!

P.S. I did get a picture of one particularly beautiful and scaly visitor, but I forgot her name.