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In 2005, myseft and my amazing crew, Robin and Cyruss, built 2000 square feet of custom form liner for the public artist Buster Simpson (bustersimpson.net). The liner was used to pour a 200 foot long concrete retaining wall, a part of the new light rail infrastructure in Tempe, AZ. The motif was an image of cracked clay taken from the dried shore of the Salt River. The liner was made by laminating three layers of high density foam. The finished form liner consisted of over 1000 pieces, each cut and shaped by hand. The liner was a beautiful object in itself.

The wall has been finished. Images to come.

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Form and liner being placed.

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Detail. Up until this, we had only ever seen one foot by one foot tests.

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