Members of the WCFG graciously participated in Adrian Baker's challenge , contributing strips of fabric. These strips were showcased in an exhibit called the Festival of Trees.
Adrian has sent an update on her progress
I recently submitted a proposal to put up an “abridged” version of Net-Work at
the “Mississauga Festival of Trees”. I’m calling this version “The
Mother Tree” to represent the large trees in a forest that help sustain
all the
trees around them.
As mentioned earlier, there are 295 hand-crafted
strands all carefully sorted and stored in my studio. As artists were
given a 10’ x 10’ space for this festival, I could only use about 100 of
the strands for this installation.
What a difficult choice!! I went through them all and in the end
selected strands that were of a similar length.
Attached are some images of the installation process, and the “Mother Tree” installed.
It consists of 2 woven willow hoops, 6ft & 3 ft wide, one inside the
other. Strands hang down from each hoop, and lights shine down between
the two layers. The whole “tree” is 13.5 feet high, and the “roots”
stretch out to 10 ft.
The space was still wide open on Monday when I put this up, but there
will be other tree-inspired installations and a craft show there as
well. For those in the Toronto area, the Mississauga Festival of Trees
runs from Dec. 9 to Dec. 19. https://www.
