Marble Chaser + Vollis Simpson Whirligig Museum Park

Item: Underway in the manspace is a wooden rail and wooden corner version of a marble chase toy. Getting the rails on this model takes careful fitting to make the joints and pin them together. This one may go into the NC State Fair Competition, the Arts Council or make a good platform for a Christmas toy with a theme. The art department will get this next before the stack of rails go in place and I can't wait to see what Donna does with the artwork to complete it. See it in http://www.whimsytwo.etsy.com/ soon.


Now we are talking. The Vollis Simpson Whirligig MuseumPark Project has captured the attention and patronage of a rather impressive list of arts foundations who are backing the concept in Wilson, NC. and this should put some giddy up in the project.

Here is what the "Reflector Box" whirligig reflector blocks look like. There are 72 of these and about 500 pieces of reflectors put on with nails. One bolt holds the block in place and a bracket from old road sign material is wired onto the frame. Vollis used a variety of nails which have split the block as it weathered. Ironically our effort to observe, record, conserve and rebuild and restore each block back to the original exceeded the approach Vollis used when he put them on but Vollis making all of the components and the whirligig was still a big undertaking.
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