Greg Gleason accompanied me in New Jersey, Washington D.C. and Baltimore in late spring of 2009, documenting the construction of the Porta Hedge – Mobile Observation Lab, an installation at the U.S. Botanic Garden and some artificial tree planting. Greg … Continue reading
Small in scale compared to the Olympics, perhaps. But grand is the first word that comes to mind when describing this past weekend’s first ever Christmas Tree Toss World Championships. The Institute for Aesthletics did a fantastic job organizing this … Continue reading
What a fantastic opportunity! I am pleased to announce that the city of Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts has invited our project, 7,000 Evergreens to participate in the 2008-2009 Baltimore Sculpture Project show in downtown Baltimore.
Robert Fishman’s 1987 book, Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbiaaddresses the monumental act of designing and planning for the planting of several thousand trees in the suburb of Riverside, Illinois: 7,000 evergreens, 32,000 deciduous trees, and 47,000 shrubs … Continue reading
This week marks the launch of the new 7,000 Evergreens project web site. 7,000 Evergreens is a social-ecological project commenced in 2007 with the mission of planting 7,000 artificial evergreen trees throughout the United States. The project’s goal is to … Continue reading