Tree of Wonderland is a piece made to create a place for people to escape. This place of escape is a life-size, abstract tree with the roots coming out of the land. The tree will be made of a blue-green fiberglass material (shown in the Luis Jimenez blue horse piece above) that resembles the magic of an imaginary world, like that of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This idea arose from my fascination with images of a single tree standing alone in a big strip of land. A solitary tree has the power to draw you in, it becomes a kind of safe haven that signifies life and gives off the feeling of home. As far as the style of this abstract tree, I took inspiration from an image of a piece by Kevin Iris, called Wire Tree. This tree is a Japanese bonsai style tree made out of wires. The Iris piece shows a big canopy that forms a protective barrier, this canopy brings the audience into the world that the tree creates. The placement of the Tree of Wonderland could be any wide open strip of land that is safe for people to travel on. I particularly chose a park called Dick Nicholas Park in Austin. Parks already call people to them, the addition of my piece would be a way to add a new element to a preexisting space.
-Pamela Nunez
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