Wind, Women, Art, Acceptance - Wind Power for the World: The Rise of Modern Wind Energy - page 504

and Tieth arrived with their spray guns and compressors to apply
the blue base colour, they sprayed over the children's work. As
a result of this inadvertent mistake, the tower was attacked by
“graffiti artists” every year. We learned a lesson about community
acceptance from that experience, and my task is to invite these
“artists” to the wind farm and organise a day of from school, so
that they can sandpaper away their “artworks”. Frank Kießlich
touches up the free spaces from year to year.
The realisation of the art project was only possible after
intensive research. Three alternatives or variations were examined
to solve the problem of how the artists would get their towers
painted. One way was for each artist to paint while sitting in a basket
attached to a crane. Another option was for the artists to paint in the
production hall of the tower, although the production then had to
be adjusted to the work pace of the artist. The third alternative was
the possibility of using normal scafolding around the tower.
All three choices were more or less unafordable, so another
possibility was additionally checked—self-adhesive foils on
the towers. Luckily, fortunate circumstances came to our aid. A
construction company from Wismar wanted to subscribe shares in
the wind farm and heard about the art project. Their enthusiasm
was so big, that we received a special ofer for the scafolding for
the four towers over a period of four weeks.

Figure 22.13 Examples of design drawings with matrix for calculation of

the amount of paint.