{"id":6856,"date":"2018-04-16T08:57:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/?p=6856"},"modified":"2023-10-30T11:45:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:45:39","slug":"hoh-rainforest-visitor-center-installation-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/hoh-rainforest-visitor-center-installation-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoh Rainforest Visitor Center Installation Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A two-year project finally gets across the finish line for Olympic National Park.<\/strong> Not the easiest thing to capture, but Nancy did a pretty good job of it photographing the final installation. A four-sided room with old-growth canopy, four other paintings on a tabletop with intricate details like swimming salmon, an otter, a fantasy image of Mount Olympus. There are hidden critters, pileated woodpeckers, spotted owls, snails, slugs, snakes, salamanders and more. There were times I truly wondered how this was all coming together, but it did – and I think it works pretty well.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Below, here’s a progress shot of some of the wall paintings (the original art) laid out in the old Superintendent’s house at Olympic NP.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And below: this part was too big to see all in one piece in the studio, so we tacked it up outside the barn occasionally to see how it was working. Nancy painted lots of the trees.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Installation with the guys from Virginia, Rob from Color-ad and Mike who did the 3-d stuff. I think we felt like family by the time with was finished.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Highly interactive tabletop was a pain to figure out, Often we all just made it up.
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This is now installed and open for viewing at the Hoh Rainforest Visitor Center on the west side of Olympic National Park.<\/strong> The first new exhibits since construction of the building in 1968, I was first here in about 1978 for a backpack up the valley. That entry into the Hoh had a profound effect on me and it’s probably a big reason I have now spent my last two decades in Port Townsend – on the othe side of the peninsula. It’s a rare and spiritual place for both Nancy and I –  and now I feel we’re a part of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading this week.
Larry Eifert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the blog on the web.<\/a> And here\u2019s my Facebook fan page<\/a>. I post lots of other stuff there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click <\/a>here to go to our main website \u2013 with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nancy\u2019s web portfolio of stunning photography<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And\u00a0here to go to Virginia Eifert\u2019s website.<\/a>\u00a0Her books are now becoming available as Amazon Kindle books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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