project concept

I had a few ideas that began to develop while we were in class- After going over borders and private property, I thought about the trees that lined our side walks, and the little space they were allotted. I felt it might be funny to make a fence around the tree, to serve as an emphasis of what space it had left, as if we were infringing on its rights, something which had to be protected.
After collecting wooden pallets for this concept, I thought it might not be such a good idea considering it would be on private property (city of Richmond maintenance). So instead, I went a different, but related direction. I wanted to find a rock, hopefully one that naturally stuck out of the ground on campus. My goal was to emphasize its presence, by circling it with twine, almost like a topography map or as if the rock could make ripples on the grounds' surface.This wasn't the easiest thing to do. I guess most rocks are removed so you don't trip over them and sue VCU or whomever's land it's on. Instead I found one of those smooth round white stones (I guess marble?) that are bought in bags at Lowes and used as decoration under bushes outside of restaurants and such. One of these had been tossed in a nearby vacant lot from where it originally was. I thought it would be interesting to use that rock because it was mined from the ground then shaped by people - then was sold to Lowes or someone else, then bought by the restaurant only to immediately be put back in a field, where it will probably get buried over time. By circling it, I could somehow tell this abstract story...well anyway, I'll post pictures tomorrow of the actual project.