Ouroboras

The Canberra Times

Ouroboros and its creator artist Lindy Lee arrive in Canberra for the installation of the $14millipon artwork on the grounds of the National gallery of Australia.

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00:00After five big days on the road, Lindy and the team were waiting to cross the border

00:08at 2am and we entered the ACT at 2am, went across the bridge here in Kings Avenue and

00:16crossed over onto the opposite side of the road of Kings Avenue and Liam, the extraordinary

00:24driver then reversed down Kings Avenue to then turn into King George's Terrace and there

00:32was a lot of manoeuvring and some extraordinary pilot work that got Ouroboros now on site.

00:54Everything from the journey of the trucks, the route of the trucks, the trucks themselves

00:58that are carrying a massively oversized load.

01:01We had a secondary truck there for back up in case anything went wrong with the first

01:05one and then we have major pieces of plant and equipment on site, really large cranes

01:10all the way down to extra supports in case we need to deal with anything that's unprojected

01:16once we're actually lifting into place and then the kind of, I guess the last item is

01:21a tiny GoPro camera inside the work itself that will help line up the last bolts with

01:26a video feed because you can't see it from the outside of the artwork.

01:37I think the best part of the journey was just travelling with the team, their skill, it's

01:45just, you know, what they have to negotiate on that road.

01:50I just had no idea at all and they are so courteous and they are so kind.

01:56Every kind of cliche about truckies is completely wrong.

02:01Truckies are great people.

02:04The worst part was idiot drivers.

02:08Some idiot decided to queue jump and was coming at us at 100km.

02:15We were doing 80.

02:17The truck cannot stop.

02:19Unfortunately, because of the skill of the pilot and Liam, the driver, nothing happened

02:26because that, seriously, death would have happened without the skill of these guys.

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