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There was a man who made a tree, just so he could chop it down. (2007)

I built a fourteen foot tall tree out of plywood and planted it outside in the Winter of 2006. In the Spring of 2007, I chopped it down and milled it back into a sheet of plywood, which I then returned to Home Depot in the Summer, in exchange for a paper receipt.

Watch video here.

planting the tree

felling the tree

milling the tree

returning the tree

See more photos and videos here.

press

· DIF Magazine
· 944/ Phoenix Magazine
· Providence Phoenix
· MocoLoco
· RISD/ Hi-Res

thanks

Thanks to Tucker Houlihan for his help building it, Baca, Brian and Shelly for helping me put it up, and Steve Roberge for his help knocking it down.

© christopher robbins 1998-now