TREELINE

Karl Miller Center atrium, Portland State University, 615 SW Harrison Street, Portland, OR.
2017

Treeline is made primarily from Alaskan Yellow Cedar salvaged in Southeast Alaska. The upper reaches of the sculpture are made with Metasequoia, salvaged from the site of the building. The small Metasequoia tree was taken down to make way for the building. A group of students from Portland State University interned at the studio and helped to create the upper areas of the sculpture. Treeline is suspended adjacent to a five-story wall of windows, providing views of the sculpture from outside the building as well as from within (above and below on multiple floor levels and staircases). The sculpture is inspired by the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine. The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine is the oldest living type of tree in the world. This species grows in remote groves around the perimeter of the Great Basin in Nevada, Oregon and California at high elevations where little else can survive.

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Treeline, Karl Miller Center atrium, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 2017. Alaskan Yellow Cedar and Metasequoia, 31’h x 12’w x 10’d, suspended 10’ above the ground plane.