Fastening Lights

Seascape Relief: Update 11

Back to chronological-progress of the piece. We removed the buildings and the clouds and set to the laborious process of fastening the lights in place beneath the steel. Lots of checking placement over and over again and shifting buildings around. 

The only time to check the progress was late at night when it was totally dark - I wanted to have a nice even glow around the buildings, and have clean lines when viewed from extreme side angles.

The city needed to have a predominantly white back lighting, while the clouds needed blue and the fading sunset a deep red.

The brackets tended to break easily, the lights themselves did not want to stay in place and there were many nights that I had layers of bricks holding everything down as I tried to train the lights to stay the way I wanted them to. The lights look a bit naked sitting there on the backing board, but I wanted to show you the steps in between the really cool stages.

After breaking several dozen bracket as I screwed them into the board, I had to go by more lights just to cannibalize the parts from them to create more brackets.