Century Tube Corporation donated metal tubing, while the 20 tons of logs used in the plaza were donated by the International Paper Company, which debarks pine logs as part of its operations at a nearby paper mill. When Glassman asked for smoother logs, a revised process was created to make them. When one of the logs became twisted after being implanted in the plaza floor, a backhoe operator, at Glassman s urging, made creative use of his equipment to get the log untwisted. Local workers also helped the artist strip the dilapidated building down to, in Glassman s words, reveal layers of history. Those elements create a plaza interior where only a few joists remain from the ceiling, creating shadow play on the brick walls.
Some plaster remains, holding examples of the paint it bore over the building s long history.
A few turquoise tiles still grace the floor. Glassman added a long, narrow reflecting pool, which frequently ripples as breezes pass. The wall adjoining the plaza exterior contains a restored archway, large because horse-drawn wagons once passed through it for unloading. From the interior, groups of bundled pine head skyward, bridging with the superstructure of the plaza exterior, where three earthen berms to the north recall the rolling hills that give way to delta flatness. Above, the pine-log superstructure sweeps and arches, rising as if to pierce the sky, reaching as high as the golden dome of the Jefferson County Courthouse across Pine Street.