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  • 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
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    • Trellis
    • Tree Therapy
    • Dormant
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JUNE WOEST

Jerusalem Thorn Tree Trellis ​

Color Up / Color Down- the Exhibition
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Russ Pitman Park, Bellaire, TX 77401
March1 - May 1, 2014 
About the Installation
Human crutches are wrapped in camouflage patterned, pressure sensitive surgical tape to provide a trellis of support for a prickly Jerusalem Thorn tree located in Russ Pitman Park in Bellaire, TX. 
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The tree in the park was arching, looking for light. It was barely alive during the spring exhibition of Color Up | Color Down, in Russ Pitman Park, in the spring of 2014. Jerusalem Thorn trees are capable of growing to 30 feet in height in an environment with plenty of moisture. This one remained shrubby because of lack of light.  Geographically, Russ Pitman Park is in the middle of its climate zone which stretches from North America to Northern Mexico. Weeks later it produced one bloom.

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The Jerusalem Thorn Tree, Parkinsonia Aculeata, is a unique plant with long thin leaf stems which are used for photosynthesis.  The vibrant yellow blooms of the Jerusalem tree grow in clusters of eight to ten flowers.  Sometimes called the Jerusalem Thorn this tree develops sharp briers and can be grown in a multiple trunk thicket to prevent access or create a barrier.  Camouflage crutches are a trellis for a prickly Jerusalem Thorn living on the edge of its climate zone in Houston.  It needs more sunshine and less water.  It bloomed profusely this spring.  Missed that photo op! It did bloom bright yellow flowers.  My intent was to give it a little lift without embarrassing it.


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