For my installation, I decided to use the woods near the soccer fields. What mainly attracted me to this location were the numerous amounts of beautiful trees lined up. I also loved how the sun only came through the trees making the scene peaceful. It was also very quiet in this part of the woods with the occasionally bird or gust of wind coming through, which made it very easy to work. The exact location I worked on is where a few logs had fallen or were previously placed against a big tree in a teepee shape. While making my installation, I began finding more logs to add to the teepee shape. I carried more logs and lined them up to give the piece more shape. I also added a few logs horizontally in the middle to form an ‘A’ shape. This took most of my time out of the whole project. Then, I went and gathered many rocks the size of my hand or bigger to build in a pile at the bottom of the tree. Lastly I wanted the piece to have more colors incorporated into it. To bring it together in the end I found many green leaves that had fallen from all of the trees and placed them in the middle of the ‘A’ shape I created with the logs. I also added a few leaves on top of the rocks. Throughout making this piece, my biggest problem I encountered was that some of the smaller logs would keep falling down causing many of the leaves to fall down in the process. The leaves also fell down because of the wind and lack of support. My finished piece is something that definitely would not go unnoticed if someone were to walk through the woods. It is a giant piece that many animals such as squirrels and birds could enjoy as well as all the bugs and spiders. While creating my piece, it was hard not to put in a lot of effort to create it, even though I would only see it maybe once again and some of it would probably be destroyed. After I was done, I did feel a sense of accomplishment and wanted a lot of people to see what I did. The pictures and videos do not do enough justice for the beauty of it in person.
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