This is probably our most challenging project.

It's called Navstar, and this is Navstar 92.

At dawn on August 10th, 1991, three flatbed trucks arrive at Franklin Park, the future home of the 1992 Ameriflora Expo.

The trucks carry Navstar, a 30-foot, 40,000-pound stainless steel sculpture, and their arrival culminates months of intense activity.

I want it to appear to be full of wind moving across the plaza.

And what I'm looking for is that quality, both in the inner structure, the quality of the welds, quality of them of the material, of course, as a given, and the quality that the people put into it.

Artist Stephen Caneto designed and supervised the fabrication of Navstar at the DeFabco plant in Columbus.

Construction began in April and lasted five months.

The design for Navstar was inspired by my love of sailing.

I grew up on the ocean, and it's both intrigued me, fascinated me since childhood.

It's basically a triangle, a three, four, five right triangle that I then broke down into the three billowing sail shapes.

OK, on the screen, what we have is a baffle, the core or the backbone of the sculpture itself.

That was generated on the AutoCAD system.

This is my first sculpture that's been not designed by any means, but architected by the computer itself.

And with the Auto-CAD, we're able to look at each baffle in plan and then know exactly what its shape is mathematically.

Which is then fed into a press by a computer tape, which instructs the press how to cut out each baffle, eliminating the human error.

We've started with the carbon steel inner structure, building it very much like an airplane wing.

The whole thing has a marvelous feeling of a stainless steel prehistoric creature rising up off the floor.

We are just in the process of getting to the most difficult part, which is the skinning with this 11 gage stainless steel.

We've got three crews working constantly on it.

We're working seven days a week, 12 hours a day.

There's not much more we can do.

By August, the three parts of the sculpture are ready to be moved to their site for installation.

The thinking at this point is to completely assemble and finish the work on site, fabricate support systems which will enable us to lean these pieces over onto the beds of the trucks that are going to transport them to the site.

What we're going to do then is lift the back end of the sail up with the fork until the crane gets the weight of the sail and then lay it back down and then we will then reposition and pick up all four corners and raise it up and set it on the bed.

So we have to be real careful about the tip of the sails.

There's a dead center on the tip.

I don't know.

So you're like a dead center on the tip.

You got center?

You got tape?

We're getting into that point and starting to drift over.

Suck it back a little bit, center it up, and put it right on!

The three-story high, 40,000-pound stainless steel sculpture is loaded onto three flatbed trucks and at 4 a.m. On August 10, 1991, NavStar is moved to its installation site.

At which time we'll pick up each of these pieces off the flat beds with the crane, and then lower them down onto the piers, which will have been poured on site.

One of the things that is exciting to me about public projects, and this is very much a public art piece, is the ability to not only bring the viewer into another way, to another way of looking at work, but also to another of looking the site.

The intent of AmeriFlora is to give NavStar to the city.

They view it as a legacy.

And a gift from this whole event to the city of Columbus.