SATI (The Search for Any Terrestrial Intelligence) I started out with this one being kind of like a sculptural satellite dish. These pictures were taken before the major steel parts needed to be assembled and connected to the base. This meant that it had to be moved to my welding yard which is exactly what it sounds like. Outside. WINTER. I had to stop work on it due to the weather. It is over 5 feet tall and has steel components. I started on a small piece that I could work on inside. While I have been working on Ascent, I have been giving a lot of thought to SATI.
I live in the Smokie Mountains. No cell phone connection, very bad internet connection. So.. I think I will give SATI an Appalachian Mountain Cargo Cult vibe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult Maybe bridge the steel ribs of the “dish” with stitched rusted steel roof ? Make the feed horn shaft out of a steel fence post with the feed horn made of a Campbell soup can? Some thing that looks like a satellite dish made to “lure” broadband like the city folks seem to have.