Dawn Flores

Offerings of woodturnings and quilts were made by volunteers to memorialize the forest.

Woodturnings were made from 18 different species of trees cut by volunteers and turned into bowls, platters, boxes, hollow forms and multi-axis sculpture.  Trees cut were apple, honey black locust, elm, wild black cherry, pear, dogwood, hackberry, pignut hickory, holly, magnolia, maple, mulberry, peach, pecan, persimmon, sycamore, river birch and white oak.  

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Quilts were made from fabric patterns designed from photographs of trees, plants, flowers, seeds, snow, birds, turtles and snakes before the forest was clear cut. After it was cut, patterns were made from debris, bulldozer treads, erosion and parched earth.  Text patterns were made from poems written specifically for The Forest Project and permission was granted to use poems already in existence.  Lists of inventories of the bird, pollinator, tree and plants populations of the forest were also used.

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