I had spoken will Bill this summer briefly about some prints he was doing for this but 8ftx8ft, that's just a little bigger than his usual stuff! Congrats Bill.
Way to go Bill! Now wait until his new wet-plate work gets noticed. They'll approach him with " we want you to gives us 8ft x 8ft ambrotypes." That would be one hell of a wet-plate camera or even a pretty good sized enlarger to projection print on a glass plate that size. Just joking Bill! Congratulations!