The lift gate was too short to hold the crate and other moving adventures

The series of photographs below show the delivery and assembly of the two casts of the VBH. This did not happen all at once but other the course of about a month. The first photo below was about a month ago when the first crate arrived. It shows the 6'x6' crate sitting as far out on the lift gate as it would go without falling off. This was during thanksgiving break so there was only one other person in the Art Barn who could come out to help the truck driver and I move the crate off of the truck. This was done by having the truck driver and my friend from the Art Barn hold up the back end of the crate so it wouldn't topple off the lift gate while I lowered the lift gate down onto the ground. I was very worried that the crate would fall and crush them, but we managed it would injury.

Also the graphics on the outside of the crates was a complete surprise to me. My father had added those onto the crates before shipping them off. It was very amusing to see the stencil of the VBH and the 'warning' on the outside of the crates. It made the crate a sort of art piece in and of themselves which I loved.

For the arrival of the second crate I asked the moving company to bring two movers to help get the crate off the truck. Only later did I discover that the College's Physical Plant owns a fork lift and so I asked them to move the crates away from the road where one was block parking space and onto the grass.

The last three pictures here are of the Five College Movers that I hired to help me moved the pieces of the VBH's out of the crates, into the gallery, and then assemble them. With their truck and my car we were able to transport the pieces across campus in just a few trips.

This last picture is hilarious. It shows one of the movers adding bolts between two of the pieces of the cast to hold it together. We had to wear heavy gloves when working with the cast pieces because the edges and the inside of the pieces had exposed fiberglass and we didn't want to cut our hands. After he had bolted in the last panel of that VBH he was stuck inside and we had to lift up the sculpture to let him crawl out.