Every holiday season consumer trends go in an out of style. Some plastic toy that everyone rushed to purchase last year may be in the discount bin this year. There does seem to be a constant through out every year of holiday shopping, the act of wrapping the gifts. In nearly every mall and department store across America there is an area in which customers can wrap their plastic toys and clothing.
What we decided to stage for our performance art piece was a public gift wrapping session, very much in the same manner what a person may see at a shopping mall. Though instead of wrapping consumer nonsense, we've decided to holiday wrap trees in forest right off of campus.
Why Trees?
We felt that wrapping trees instead of something one might find in a mall would shed light on our American consumer culture, and in some way make the audience appreciate the gifts that are all around them throughout the entire year.
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