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Tree Guardian

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This is my new Tree Guardian, he is replacing my old tree guardian that I never liked that much. This all has to do with Joel Tauber's Syc-amor project. You can check out USC professor Joel Tauber at his website at http://www.joeltauber.com/. He's a little crazy just to warn you. But basically he saved a tree in the Rose Bowl parking lot and created tree babies from it's seeds and sold the tree babies and placed them all over the world. The whole project is about the plight of urban trees and yes, the upper class environmental artsy type totally eats this stuff up. Anyway about a year and a half ago he asked students to create tree guardian sculptures to create a ring around the tree baby planted at USC. I created one, but since I was so busy my senior year, I kind of half-assed it and was a little ashamed of it, considering it's a piece of mine that will supposedly be displayed for like 30 years. Fortunately I was not the only artist that half assed it, most the sculpt