TREEform
meditation on tree form for tree-town - enhancing public space
meditation on tree form for tree-town - enhancing public space
Public Art Commission - 1% for art project - site specific permanent installation for Ann Arbor Parks Department's renovation of Historic West Park
The site is a park that stands where the Allen Creek once ran. There are many issues with the natural space as a result of the City containing and burying the River. The remediation efforts include more natural spaces and areas that allow for natural wetlands.
The installation was concieved to work on the macro to personal scales and engage both the Theater and Park space of which it is a part. Centered on and around a new set of concrete benches opposite the park's band shell, the piece includes stone work integrated into the seating space, and meant as a bird's eye tree-form drawing as well as two steel tree-form sculptures that cap and contain the theater space. The forms play with both architectural and awning forms, while based on the beauty and symmetry of leaves forming a tree-form within themselves.
The site is a park that stands where the Allen Creek once ran. There are many issues with the natural space as a result of the City containing and burying the River. The remediation efforts include more natural spaces and areas that allow for natural wetlands.
The installation was concieved to work on the macro to personal scales and engage both the Theater and Park space of which it is a part. Centered on and around a new set of concrete benches opposite the park's band shell, the piece includes stone work integrated into the seating space, and meant as a bird's eye tree-form drawing as well as two steel tree-form sculptures that cap and contain the theater space. The forms play with both architectural and awning forms, while based on the beauty and symmetry of leaves forming a tree-form within themselves.
First set of rolled steel "branches" on template
First of two "treeforms" ready for final welding
