BLUE TREE
SONOMA (CALIFORNIA), U.S.A.

BLUE TREE

SONOMA (CALIFORNIA), U.S.A.

Project
Installation for the Cornerstone Festival of Gardens, Napa Valley

Client
Cornerstone Festival of Gardens

Year
2004

Status
Built

New life was given to a diseased tree slated for removal by decking its branches with 75,000 retrofitted sky-blue Christmas balls. The landscape equivalent of a Photoshop eraser saturated this natural tree with the artificial in a bid for total camouflage. But the opposite result occurred: Blue Tree stood out against the ever-changing sky, becoming a barometer for subtle fluctuations in natural light.

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Prizes

Canadian Society of Landscape Architects
National Merit 2005 – Blue Tree, Cornerstones Garden festival, Sonoma, California

Credits

1. Cornerstone Garden, 2003
2. Geneviève L’Heureux, 2005
3. Geneviève L’Heureux, 2005
4. CCAPI (Marc Hallé), May 2003
5. Construction, CCAPI (Marc Hallé), May 2003
6. Construction, David Aquilina, 2003
7. Concept, CCAPI, May 2003
8. Construction, CCAPI, May 2003
9. Concept, CCAPI + Cornerstone Garden, 2003
10. Demolition, David Aquilina, January 2007
11. Baby Blue Tree, David Aquilina, October 2007