I was commissioned to sculpt giant T-Rex heads, a large Moose head and a large Bison head for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Winter Olympic games in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2001/2002. The T-Rex was sculpted from giant blocks of foam and then cast in carbon fiber, as the finished products had to be extremely lightweight to be operable on the giant boom lifts that allowed them to be puppeteered. The finished products weighed under 20 pounds even though the were 21 feet long and almost 11 feet tall. The Moose and Bison heads were made of hand bent and welded steel rod with a semi-translucent stretch fabric pulled over them. The commission/work came through Michael Curry Design (in Oregon) where I had worked for many years as a project manager and managing the sculpture department.
