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Organisers knew about the possibility of delayed sculptures and a geotechnical assessment shutting down the lookout, but both were confirmed four days before the exhibition opened to the public. The cliff verdict forced the organisation to pull out Plan B and reshuffle six sculpture locations. “You can’t put any old sculpture next to each other; they have to fit comfortably next to each other,” Handley said. “[We had] sculptures coming in on schedule and still installing those, while working out how we’re going to rearrange the exhibition to take into account the delays and confirmation that we couldn’t have a sculpture on the lookout … It was a challenge.” While rockfalls are an omnipresent threat along most Sydney coastlines, they are rare and unpredictable by nature, said Bruce Thom, emeritus professor of geoscience at the University of Sydney.
