When my teammate and I first started our project we found some inspiration on Pinterest thinking of maybe making a treehouse situation out of wire. From there, we created a tree and were struggling with how we should incorporate a treehouse into our tree. We eventually drifted away from the idea of doing a treehouse and created a swing set. 

The way in which we created the base was by using chicken wire and folding it to make it stronger. The color of the chicken wire is green so, that helped our line installation to represent grass we also rolled up some chicken wire into balls to create somewhat of a leaf-like appearance to the trees. For the trunk and the branches, we used some random silver wire that was pretty malleable. For the roots of the tree, we wrapped twine around some of the silver wire that was used for the branches. We then created some swings that would hand from the tree, the swing set, the branches, and the roots. 

Once we had finished creating the scene we played with names that we could name this piece and we landed on ‘Where Did All The Children Go?’ which is the name of one of the group dances that was performed on Dance Moms. After, watching the dance we wanted to create one figure that would be left swinging on one of the swings that are made of cardboard and white string with the figurine made of wooden sticks and twine.