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Tree Construction - Evidence & Evaluation


EVIDENCE IN SKETCH BOOK

My plan was to use metal rode and bend them like vines to create the trunk initially, however after finding out i was way to weak to be able to bend the poles by hand. This lead me to build a jig which would help aid me in bending the poles. The technicians suggested that i would need construction lines to be able to support the branches especially if i were to put bronze leaves on it. This isn't what i had in mind but if its unavoidable then i will have to add them. I did think about having supporting wires from the roof but found out this wasn't possible due to health and safety as well as the building its self. I decided to make a metal structure where i would have two flat cross sections that i would weld together, however once i made the construction lines i found that it was a lot harder to bend the wire than i initial thought. I soon realised i wasn't going to get the natural vine like lines that i had set out to do



From this I decided to go back to my initial plan of bending the poles, however even with the jig this was extremely hard to make the trunk thin and bend in the way i wanted to. This problem meant i had to come up with a new solution as to how i should bend the poles. I came up with the idea to bend the poles around a pipe that was the circumference of the tree trunk. This proved still challenging yet easier than just using the jig as it gave me a guide thickness that i could follow. Starting with just three poles to get the main structure correct making it easier for the other poles to follow. I welded the poles together which resulted in the pipe actually getting stuck in the middle of the tree trunk. The end result reminds me of how ivy encases and traps a tree, house, lamppost etc. Ivy suffocates its 'victim' (tree/plant) and slowly kills it. What i have accidentally constructed have feels of entrapment and suffocation. The metal poles although metal look organic and natural juxtaposing the industrial pipe. Suggesting to me that its nature capturing/ taking over our man made landscape. However, both elements are man-made and that actually us as humans (me the maker) are trying to regenerate nature symbolised by the fact both the pipe and the vines (metal poles) are man-made. We have single handedly destroyed nature and this to symbolise nature destroying what we have created, however its not possible unless us as humans allow nature to grow. using both man made materials to me is evidence that use as humans should use what we have to help nature be strong again and become more abundant than our industrial landscape. 

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