For the past year and a half I've been working as an Exhibit designer/fabricator at the Toledo Zoo in Toledo. For most of that time we ( our department is connected with the graphic designers) have been working on the new Children's zoo being built, the grand opening is this Friday the 19th. One of the projects we were given was to come up with a solution for lost kids. What could we make so that if a child got lost they could go to a certain place and be reunited with their parents? We choose a kite as an easily identifiable symbol. With that in mind we could do anything as long as there was a kite involved. Since I'm a sculptor, I thought it would be nice if it was something three dimensional so that kids could easely spot it from anywhere inside the exhibit. I thought if we created a seat then they could also sit there too. A compass came to mind because if you are lost it's good to have a compass. So it evolved into a compass seat with a big ball of string and kite at the end. Everyone liked it so I "won the commission" so to speak. I want to thank my two co-workers Dennis Blackwell and Brad Schuster for there help with this project, I couldn't have done it with out there help. I think it turned out quite well and hopefully it will serve its purpose well.
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