A Day in the Leaf

It was Friday. A rainy Friday in late December. A short dark muddy day, shot with passing sunshine. It felt like a Friday. I spent too long in the trailer onsite debating color choices with Steven, but when I did emerge, it seemed to me that it must have been a rather nice day. Mike Miller and Kelley Burnham, of The Concretist, were onsite sculpting and coloring the concrete floor. For more about them, check them out at http://www.theconcretist.com/. The concrete art is the beginning of the finish work in the store. You could say we are at the beginning of the end.

Kelley, Mike, and Steven at the door of the Community Kitchen. Steven is pointing out a detail in the raw material.


















We do spend a fair amount of time talking about the floor, but in the end, the materials take their own direction every time.



















Kelley and Mike were sandblasting around plasma-cut metal shapes yesterday, and took over the jobsite with concrete dust. Here are the initial results.... look carefully, the slight difference is textural.















Extreme left edge of floor pattern in Bloom.


















These circles will be seeded with jellybean glass.


















Look for two rows of circles heading towards Meat and Seafood in a sandblasted field with a jagged edge on the right.














These are the plasma-cut shapes. Circles in NBC, sails in front of the Café and Deli.














































Command central. JB and Cameron at battle stations.


















You don't see them sitting down much, so I took two pictures.














Everyone was working and Steven was just sitting there, a full grown man playing with scissors.


















We looked at colors till they all turned blue.
Have we bitten off more than we can chew?














Just when you think it's over...
















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Westside Evolution