Starting last September, I began making regular trips out to the African Forest construction site. At first it didn’t look like much, just a pile of dirt with some PVC pipes sticking out of the ground. This period of time in a construction project is exciting but its also a little scary – up until now everything just existed on paper (which means making changes is still cheap, relatively speaking). What if when they started building, it didn’t look like what I pictured? What if I forgot something? Too late, here we go…
if you squint, you can picture a chimp exhibit in the foreground
We did a preview of some of the finished product last winter when we viewed samples of some of the carved rockwork and walls. These guys are artists, they do an amazing job, making it impossible to see where real wood and rock end and cement begins.
no trees were injured in the making of this uh, tree - its all cement!
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