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#TakeASketchLeaveASketch

5/25/2013

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Last week was the slightly rainy opening of Nature Art in the Park. As I have mentioned in earlier posts, I am pretty new to creating nature art (art made from natural materials) and public art (art displayed in a public place). I should also say I have never made an interactive piece before, but came up with the idea to build a nature inspired interactive mailbox. I built the box from found branches and bark, filled it with handmade recycled paper, left instructions for visitors take a sketch and leave a sketch, and encouraged them to tweet their sketches using the hashtag #TakeASketchLeaveASketch. I planned to upload all the Twitter photos to a page on my website over the course of the Nature Art in the Park exhibition. After much hard work, I completed the piece, installed it, and hoped for the best.
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#TakeASketchLeaveASketch on opening day, May 19, 2013
Because of the weather, not that many people visited my piece at the opening, but I did meet one person who sketched the following and put it into the mailbox. I was happy that the project was underway.
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The first sketch.
The weather continued to be quite rainy throughout the week, and there hadn't been any tweets after the first sketch, so I decided to check on my piece yesterday. I was surprised at what I found:
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Nest in #TakeASketchLeaveASketch
There was a bird's nest inside! To be fair, I modeled this piece after different birdhouses I looked at, but I didn't think a bird would take it so seriously. I called the organizer of Nature Art in the Park, and she suggested I rename this piece, put a "do not disturb" sign next to it, and make a new, more secure box to carry out my original idea. That sounded good to me, because if I took the bird's nest out, I am pretty sure another one would come around and use it later.

So, for now, #TakeASketchLeaveASketch has been temporarily derailed, but hopefully in a week or two I will have the second version finished and ready for action. If you would like to see (but not touch) this original #TakeASketchLeaveASketch art piece, find it on Trail D at Leakin Park.

Also, let me know if you would like me to make you a birdhouse.
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Terry
5/26/2013 03:26:13 am

Really cool...can you tell what species of bird is making their nest?

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Erika
5/26/2013 05:20:55 am

I don't know, someone else guessed without seeing the nest that it could be sparrow. It's not a very big nest or a very big birdhouse, so I'm not sure. I will keep an eye on it though and hopefully see the bird at some point.

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deb
5/28/2013 08:38:56 am

super blog site, the pictures and ideas are awesome. I like the eggs too!

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Erika
5/28/2013 10:46:15 am

Thanks for the comments! Glad you enjoy the blog.

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