Instead of lecture today...I was hanging birdhouses!!

Today, my 3D final was due so I had to skip lecture in order to hang it up in time for class. We had to do a site-specific piece somewhere on Temple's campus. I drew my inspiration from an artist named James Jaxxa, who works with tree art. One of his famous pieces is about really obnoxious colored apples that he added onto a tree. I decided to re-create this same idea but by using birdhouses. I created some myself in the woodshop but I collected other birdhouses I found around my house. I chose a tree outside the architecture building to fit in with the specificity of the various types of birdhouse designs I incorporated into this piece. I painted the birdhouses bright blue, aqua, and pink so they would really catch people's attention as they walked by, just like James Jaxxa's work does. This installation really caught the attention of the architecture students, one of which even asked if it was a squirrel trap. At least it produced a reaction, even if it was not was I was looking for. I'm just glad to say that I am done with woodshop because it was not my favorite class by far, although I was pretty happy with how this specific piece turned out.