JUNE WOEST
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  • I See Land
  • Weather Gear
  • Aerial Photos
  • Colored Glass
  • Longing to Travel
  • ___________________
  • Super Humans
    • People Sculptures
    • People Posters
  • ___________________
  • At Home in Here
    • Indoor Installation
  • RoadsignUSA
    • Roadsign #1
    • ....more Roadsigns >
      • Goodbye Bill Hello Annise #2
      • Preserving Space #3
      • Nap #4
      • Your Calm Able Spirit #5
      • Rat Race #7
      • Four Lilys #8
      • Summer Tonic #9
      • Espectacular #10
      • Yogi On Location #11
  • Pharmacy Domesticus
    • Outdoor Installation
  • ___________________
  • Community Projects
    • Wedgespace | the Project
    • Ebola at Hcc
    • Knitting Time
    • Food & Water $6.00 oz.
    • Peppermint Tonic
    • Damaged Ceramics
    • Notes on Religion
    • Earth Shattering
    • Municipal Dirt >
      • Concept | Year One >
        • 2009 Human Nature Planted
        • 2010 Preserving Space
  • Invitationals
    • L’esprit De L’escalier
    • Borrowed Hands >
      • Critical Ceramics Essay by Dana Padgett
    • Seed Rooms >
      • More About Seed Rooms
    • Copenhagen
    • Home Health Care Mini-Many
    • Aggregates
  • Gardens
    • Trellis
    • Tree Therapy
    • Dormant
    • Lily Pads
  • ____________________
  • CV
  • Teaching Philosophy
  • Bio
JUNE WOEST

Tree Therapy

by June Woest
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April 27, 2011
Tree Therapy - In Progress
Defining Green
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Sculpture Exhibition
Russ Pitman Park
April 27 - May 2, 2011
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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. 
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Urban Artists 

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


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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