project 1

I've been working on my first project through out labor day weekend. took a about a day to come up with a base plan. Still not sure if I'm on the right track. Its an earth awareness piece that i hope will draw different responses. I scouted locations, I would have liked a big maple or elm tree but do to the scale that i can afford ( money and time ), i had to resort to my local surroundings. I don't have a tree in my own yard so i eventually had to settle on a neighbors down the street, whom by the end of the day thought i was crazy. I then had to get sweaty and dig a hole beneath the tree to symbolize the earth sucking in the plastics. I like being outdoors and working in the yard so the the3me of play was always there. selecting the materials for the tree and the hole was also play, rearranging the pieces would be considered play also. The fact that this instillation can be set up a in any town and arranged anyway, by any gathering of people, and can never really be finished evokes the basics of play. I don't want trash in the hole, but objects of everyday use you don't throw away. My vision for the real piece in a perfect world with the proper resources is a huge tree in a field by itself and a huge crater beneath filled with toys and valued human objects of all makes and models. The tree would hold thousands of cardboard and paper products streaming from its branches. I believe i'm going to call it "Clean your own mess". Provoking all views, some might be mad others may see it as i imagine it, the world sucking up the things we've made from the earth itself. Everything comes from the earth and this is its return, not as a landfill, but as a portal. The plastic being sucked down to the magma of the center of the earth and being despursed back into basic elements. The paper and cardboard would fuse back into the tree before your eyes and youd be left with a bigger stronger tree, and a refueled earth.