To start this project my group and I started out by scouting out a pair of trees that we would build our installation on. Once we decided on a location we took a picture of the site and brought it inside to make a rough sketch/plan before we started on the real thing. 

From there we began the process of wrapping each tree with yarn. We wanted to cover a good amount of each tree so that it would both be visible during the day and also be better off when it came to having blacklights pointed at them. We used bright neon yarn so that it would glow. After the trunks and branches of the tree were decently covered we began the process of connecting the trees with draped yarn. While some of us continued wrapping yarn others began to work on making the chicken wire forms that we would later attach to the tree.

Making these forms was probably the most challenging part of this process. I struggled to mold the chicken wire in the way I had originally planned. Because of this we had to move a little away from our original sketch and make the forms somewhat smaller. Once I shaped the forms my other group members began to spray paint them white. We did this so they would be more visible once attached to the tree and hopefully would also glow under the blacklight. After the forms dried we began the process of attaching them to the tree. Once attached I found that they didn’t have as much volume as I originally wanted them to so I decided to buy some white tulle that we would then put on the inside of each form.

Our final step was adding the string lights in the tree and also setting up the blacklights.

My contribution to the group was that I wrapped yarn on the trees and made the chicken wire forms.