COASTE | ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Being affordable also led to his most famous work of art, one that got him the nickname “the guy who did the wall.” It was the early 1980s, and discussion of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall put the timeline to complete the 58,000-names project at three years and the cost in the millions of dollars. But Century had a different idea — his photo stencil grit blast technology — and when he met with the director of the project, showed him prototypes and promised it would take only months and hundreds of thousands of dollars to do the job, “He about fell out of his chair. They really felt like I was a Godsend and for me, it was a Godsend to work on that project. I had achieved probably the ultimate in an engraver’s career and I was just in my mid-20s. I knew it was my opportunity to create this as my life’s work.” His full time relocation to Sanibel occurred in 1985. Two years earlier, on a brief hiatus to Captiva Island, Lucas was enjoying some live music at the Crow’s Nest at ‘Tween Waters Inn
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