Thank you to all the little monkeys
You made my day

Wind Playground is done and shining away on Cottesoe beach of for its premiere at the 9th edition of Sculpture by the Sea 2013

BIG THANKS to all the supporter . I know not all when as planed . Between equipment malfunction, limited resources, high hopes often smashed by false promises the production of Wind Playground delay of a year and I’m terribly sorry about that.
On the bright site here it is blowing with the wind and people love it.

As soon as I’m back In USA I’ll began sorting out all your rewards.

Thank you to all the supporter for taking part of this journey.

Special thanks go to :

Black Rock Arts Foundation for being the first believing in this vision
Sculpture by the Sea and its wonderful crew
The town of Cottesoe
Partridge Partners and Jeremy Sparks for the awesome structural engineering work.
China Southern Airlines for covering traveling expenses
Dimension Polyant for donating part of the sailcloth
Sailbags Maui for supporting the fundraising
Central Institue of Technology
Gallery Central for hosting me in Perth
NeilPryde for allowing us to use the plotter
+H2O for its support during the fundraising and help gathering gear

Berry Spanier for teaching all I needed to build Wind Playground and let me use his sawing machines
Lena Kerr teaching me and helping me sawing Wind Playground
Diana Velhuerdi for teaching me and helping me desing Wind Playground patterns
Manuel Sauvage for the endless hour spend building WPG digital model used for all the structural engineering assessments.
Sol Feldberg for working on the patterns digitization and prepare it for both the plotter cutting and assembling.
Stefano Maffini for helping with the shipment
Mickey Eskimo for donating his mast.
Naish, Masato Naito at Maui Windsurf Company, Chris Freeman at Hot Sails Maui and Second Wind for donating all the gear (universals, mast attachments mast etc) to build the Wind Playground structure .
Jason Diffin at Quattro International for spotting me with random sail making supply when I was short.
Michel Goerike, Miles Valle, Mario Occhipinti and Christos Kalesperides for volunteering their time. Especially Miles for the hard work.
Mark , Paige and Sean for all the silly “Cannery” interaction and for always have a big smile on their faces.
Gatto (Nano’s dog) for being our team mascot and the best pooch ever.
Baked On Maui for the good vibe and the chocolate croissant

Last but not list I wish to thank my parents Raffaele Marinelli and Vera Poli and all my family for supporting me and love me just the way I’m .

Thank you all
Maia

We need all hands on deck for a test install 3955 LEPO Street Haiku HI.

We need people to hold it to the ground !

contact me on my cell: 646 221 2611
or via email at windplayground@gmail.com

Wind Playgound takes over from Maia Anthea Marinelli on Vimeo.

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Kick back, joy life and support art.

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To get there however we need some financial help to cover shipment, travel and the engineer report needed to install the sculpture and get insurance.

All donation are tax deductible and we do offer reword for each donation you make.
Here is a list of our rewords http://www.windplayground.com/?p=311

Please help us keep this dream alive DONATE HERE

Knowing the ins and outs of every single piece and material through daily touch and the daily physical engagement with your work is a powerful process; cathartic down to the laying of the double-side tape, to the panel assembling against the seam line or the cutting circles for the structural reinforcement (which kind of turns the left over material into some kind of Christmas decoration)

An evolution as physical as cerebral.

I have spent months calculating, designing and painfully overthinking how every peace of this monster fits together. After assembling this first section, seeing how every thing fits together to the millimeter and how the sails began to take their shape, I know it works.
Every single obsessive detail worked on over and over, works.
All the crazy equations on my wall, the stubborn decision of combining 2 materials together to create a dynamic texture, worked (even if it made every thing 3 times harder and time consuming).
It works, it is alive, kicking and growing !

Now looking at it all I wonder If maybe I was guided by some sort of ultra terrain power, abducted by aliens or struck by a rare case of cosmic neutrino lightning, because this is more beautiful and amazing that I could ever imagine.
It feels beyond me, yet I have diligently built every single piece of it with my own hands through a year worth of work.

I like to think I was in my Dream Sate therefore every thing was possible.
I hope this will remind us all that our body and mind can learn and do anything we want.

Time to go back to work

Have a good day

Looking at this panel I can’t help thinking of what it took to get here.
I’m not talking only in term of organization, work ethic and technical knowledge. That is indeed part of an amazing growth that I’m still undertaking.
The most important thing of all however is I learn how to change, evolve under tension, bend under heavy storm and snap back.
As a result I might have way more gray hair than wished for, but I’m deeply thankful for all I have learned, and for all I will be learning by the time Wind Playground is installed at Sculpture by the Sea.

This project is both a hell of a challenge and an amazing adventure. Started on a vision, I jumped into it and since then, the adrenaline rush has yet to stop.
Today I picked up the phone to talk to a complete stranger about the WPG and ask for a sponsorship. A few months ago that same man would have found himself talking with a woman bound in a cocoon of tension and discomfort.
A year ago I would have never made that call.

For years I have been terrorized by the act of writing because of dyslexia. Now I write, constantly, and in another language. It’s not perfect, but I’m not afraid any more.

2 weeks ago while solving the overwhelming task of designing an assembling system for Wind Playground, I found my self-writing equations. It came to me like as a full 3-dimational living system and I wrote equations for hours.
I haven’t touched algebra since I was 19 YO!
I know it sounds crazy, but it works!

This experience I has taught me courage, trained my intuition and how to follow it . I faced my shortcomings and learn how to turn it in opportunities… Still learning actually.

If every thing would have gone as planed I would have learn nothing.
I would have explored nothing. I would have challenge nothing.
I would be still roaming in a safe meadow, completely unaware of the potentials surrounding me.

All of this was possible because of all of you.
I want to thank all the people , organizations, foundations and companies that have supported Wind Playground and that will support it in the future.
Some of you have supported financially, some of you donated equipment, material and expertise.
Without you this incredible adventure would not be possible and Wind Playground would still be an escaping vision.

Thank you immensely.

Maia