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April 27, 2011
Tree Therapy - In Progress
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May 2, 2011
Tree Therapy - Finished
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Leaf column is linked to living nature by taunt monofilament line tied to supporting trees and park foliage.
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Monofilament becomes a trellis for spring vine against a contrasting background of native lifelessness. 

Tree Therapy

Defining Green
Sculpture Exhibition
Russ Pitman Park
April 27 - May 2, 2011

It is Houston’s huge tree leaf canopy that defines green for me. I felt this tree stump oddly tall and without purpose, so I rehabilitated it with my own interpretation of coppicing. Coppicing interested me because it can make a harvestable, woodland crop out of what seems like a damaged life- a tree stump. 

Horticulturally speaking, when a tree is coppiced properly, many shoots emerge which are characteristically curved at the base, creating a woodland forest of sucker branches that create new, miniature versions of forestland.  Those many branches create tree canopies for every stump. A  coppiced tree will never die of old age, and can be coppiced repeatedly for its twig stalk and tiny branch material. If a tree is improperly coppiced by a human, like this one, it needs extreme care and tiny tethering to its nearest lifelike neighbor species in order for the tiny timber to grow new, however oddly shaped and twisted, landscape canopies.  jw

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Thank you! 
Urban Artists
Sue Patrick and Anne Haass
Autumn in Houston, TX


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Concept Drawing, Leafy Column
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  • HOMEPAGE
    • Contact & CV
  • OUTDOORS
    • Trellis
    • Damaged Ceramics
    • Food & Water $6.00 oz.
    • Tree Therapy
    • Dormant
    • Pharmacy Domesticus
    • Lily Pads
  • INDOORS
    • At Home in Here
    • Notes on Religion
    • Ebola at Hcc
    • L’esprit De L’escalier
    • Knitting Time
    • Home Health Care Mini-Many
    • Copenhagen
    • Summer Tonic
    • Seed Rooms >
      • More About Seed Rooms
    • Earth Shattering
    • Borrowed Hands >
      • More About Borrowed Hands
    • Aggregates
  • MUNICIPAL DIRT
    • 2012 Defining Green
    • 2010 Preserving Space
    • 2009 Human Nature Planted
    • Concept | Year One
  • ROADSIGN USA
    • Gallery of Roadsigns
    • Monument to Four Mayors #1
    • Goodbye Bill Hello Annise #2
    • Preserving Space #3
    • NAP
    • Your Calm Able Spirit
    • Rat Race
    • Four Lilys
    • Summer Tonic
    • Espectacular
    • Yogi On Location