With bulldozer operators, workers to collect the dumping fees and help from welders, sculptors, stonemasons and others who primarily work at the city museum, he has created a rough oval of dirt piles to connect the silos, blast chimney and mixing facilities.
While the process has been slow, and Cassilly received a ticket for dumping with an expired permit in 2000, nature's constancy will eventually be contrasted with man-made decay, as grass covers the dirt, Cassilly's collection of obsolete machines grind and whir to no end and the core of the factory is flooded, allowing visitors to ride boats in and out of the buildings.
"These are simple, elemental forms," Cassilly said. "They're raw and they're the exact opposite of everything being built today that you get from Ikea and other places. The factory is all heavy industrial stuff. It's got all this potential. It has energy."
The goal, he said, is similar to that of the City Museum: to create an unmistakable place "where people can come and do things they're not supposed to."
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