An installation for The Big Splash, Wilder Recreation Area, Wilder, VT, sponsored by Connecticut Riverfest, Inc., July 1997
Birches celebrated a tall forked white birch tree in a public picnic area on the banks of the Connecticut River during a two day cultural celebration focusing on river ecology. Segments of dried maple saplings were scraped, sorted, and cut to size, then wedged horizontally between the two trunks of a tall leaning white birch tree. The maple segments were placed at regular intervals. As the wind blew, a random number of the long, thin, higher maple segments fell out adding variety to the spacing. The segments began about three feet off the ground and continued to about twenty four feet high. Longer segments of maple radiated in a double spiral from the base of the birch tree.
