Coming About is the Stabile that I entered in the City of Marina’s anniversary contest back in 2015. While it was among three works selected, it was shelved for lack of funding.

My long time clients from Palo Alto, CA wanted a sailing themed Stabile for their front garden. After looking at my various Stabile models, they chose Coming About to be scaled to 7 feet.

Here are a few photos of the process, from model to installation (which will be in future posts).

The original model did not have the gussets necessary to triangulate the trusses. Modifying the original would have marred the finish extensively, so I decided that I would create a new model with the gussets. It is a little larger than the original which gave me a bit more room to fit the gussets without having to work at miniature scale.

Next post will be about the welding of the waterjet cut parts…