Click the image and it should enlarge. Photo by Linda Repplinger – thanks Linda
I completed this painting last year, and last week received a photo of the installation from Linda, Senior Designer at Sea Reach, ltd in Sheridan Oregon, who is doing all the great interpretive exhibits. I think it turned out pretty well. The original task here was to show the Portland Water District’s watershed, from the Cascades all the way downstream to downtown Portland – water pipes, gate valves, Bull Run Lake – the works (waterworks). Somehow it turned into an enormous vista, pieced together into 12 panels in high-pressure laminate that are all meshed together. Portland, 16,000 feet up! I remember getting the idea while flying back from California on a plane and looking down as we went past. If you look at the door on the right you’ll get a scale of this thing.
photo by Bethlayne Hansen – Willamette Week
And the building? It’s on top of Powell Butte on the eastern side of town, east of I-405. Powell Butte has now been hollowed out and the two gigantic covered reservoirs built inside it will hold 100 million gallons of Portland’s water – no pumps, all gravity feed. There’s a nature park on top, with trails and this new visitor center, shown here under construction back in October.
I like nothing better in life than a bit of adventure, figuring out how to do something I’ve need done – or even considered. Someone asked me when I was going to retire. Ha! I think the word RETIRE is shorthand for REALLY TIRED, and I’m sure not that yet. I just want to stay relevant, to continue to contribute and not get left behind as the rest of life moves always onward past me. Give me more amazing projects like this and I’ll be a happy painter. Currently I’ve got my mitts into several amazing bids for some large (and confounding) paintings – so let’s see if they happen. Stay tuned!
Thanks for reading this week.
Larry Eifert
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