Shoofly free-moN module - 1
abutment, workers removing the wood framing of a finished
abutment, and a surveying crew aligning both abutments while
a bulldozer clears the miscast concrete chunks. (27)
I scratched the finished abutment out of styrene, while the
crumbled remains of the miscast abutment are the crumbled
remains of balsa foam with some wire and screen mesh pieces
sticking out. The rebar was shaped from a screen door repair
patch with a few of the horizontal wires teased out from the
top, and the forms created from stained stripwood. A Model
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27: Each section of the shoofly scene tells a different
part of the story. The remains of the wooden trestle poke
out of the ground and water. Chunks of miscast concrete
are being carted away, rebar and wooden forms begin to
rise around the hoist crane, and surveyors ensure this
time everything will work out right.
MRH-Feb 2013
