A Forest of Trees
Installing a forest of metal in Houston, Texas was one of the largest projects I have undertaken. The many-branched trees are all either seven or twelve feet tall. Each tree is its own significant work, but the arrangement of the steel grove within the building’s atrium creates a sculptural environment that alludes to the emotional meanings that forests and their natural processes have for us. Expressions of the forest beyond the metal trees may give us reminders of growth, regrowth, strength, and a little bit of the peace of wild things.