Scott’s Seafood

“Rivers flow not past, but through us…” John Muir

Scott’s Seafood is now my longest consistent commercial client, starting in 1991. Alan Irvine and I have become great friends. I appreciate his faith in me and especially in the past few years, as we’ve both faced challenges, along with everyone else in the world. What follows are projects, and transitions and adaptations of projects over those years, maybe in no particular order.

The Big Fish #1: Loehmann’s Plaza, 2001

**Specialty cement, architectural foam, acrylic, 7 x 26′**

Big Fish # 2 gets new skin and moves to the river, 2012-3

Reimagining a two-part sculpture on two planes into one plane, along with a steel structure, was one of the toughest challenges I’ve ever had, greatly assisted with Bill Kuyper, master welder, and Brooks Taylor.

Big Fish #3 (renamed Finley) gets a new skin: Gyotaku prints

Main wall #1: ceramic elements represent things that float, 2013

All the ceramic elements were removed. They will be take on a new form in a different space, and in the meantime, the main restaurant walls are again transformed.

In studio process

The installation process with the outstanding Whitney Hobbs and her mom, PHD Wallpapering

The Army Corp of Engineers starts a critical flood protection project.

“A river is time in water: as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.” Leonardo da Vinci

After the more than challenging Covid years, just when we thought normalcy had returned, this huge project showed up and completely shut down Scott’s patio views and all the wedding venue spaces. They build a 12′ high by hundreds of feet long sound and visual barrier. We had to come up with a solution, and though many customers were disappointed at the loss of the view, many more supported Scott’s and somehow, we all survived.

“Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet, what happened when you had seen inside a river…” A.A. Milne

While I was designing the elements into 7 panels, each 8′ high by 20′ wide, I had an epiphany. They don’t come often enough, but this was a good one: find famous quotes about rivers.