"Knit Sock" Tree Art

Topped urban trees, "all dressed up"

As you enter the downtown core of the City of Sammamish you'll be greeted by these outrageously colorful dressed-up trees.  They were once hazardous trees that were topped off for safety and to create "snags" for urban habitat (crows, bugs, a flicker or two?).  Since topped urban trees look pretty ugly, the artists and city came up with this creative "urban tree art" solution.  Have you seen anything like it?

Artists Suzanne Tidwell and Beth Newfeld "knitted these socks".  The exhibit was funded by 4-Culture and endorsed by the Sammamish Art Commission.  According to the exhibit plaque, "upon exhibit completion the tree stumps[snags] will be relocated for wetland habitat.".

Opinion and photo by Yoder