closing ceremony

This morning I installed 90 plus metres of press dried, pink painted, heart shaped leaves for Treeline's closing ceremony.  

The last few weeks, I've been collecting, cutting, painting, drying and pressing 700 Macaranga leaves and the last few days I've been stringing them onto 76 x 1.2mtr lengths (in my spare time and inbetween my recent solo exhibition!) I had hoped to do a few posts in the lead up to the event, unfortunately, I literally ran out time and puff - clearly being over 40 is starting to catch up on me!

Of course, installing over ninety metres resulted in a lot of photos...

Looking fresh for an early start to the day.

Cascading down and over the rocks. (top & below)

Distancing into the courtyard beyond.

Help arrives! Jo Burnett drops in with Lucy and Charlie to lend a hand, only 60 or so metres to go!

...and through the Viola.

..then outside near the entrance - all hands on deck!  Charlie placing rocks inbetween the string to weight them down, in the distance; Jo and Lucy sorting the leaves for me.

around the bend,

..and down the drive - with a few strands left over I took them back up and around the corner creating a colourful display.

A few shots behind the scenes in prep'ing the leaves...

 About four full wheel barrow loads yielded the 700 leaves.

Each leaf had to be shaped,

stored ready for painting.

And painted with a spray gun.  To hard to resist - a little squirt on each boot :-)

The negative space looked pretty kool!