Aviva Rahmani, American, born 1945
Blued Tree with Cows, 2016, 2016
Art-activist Aviva Rahmani created The Blued Trees Symphony, a project of one-third-mile long musical measures along the forested paths where natural gas pipelines and pipeline expansion projects had been proposed. Individual trees along the proposed route of construction were mapped and painted with blue buttermilk paint. Using the geographic configuration of each tree, Rahami transferred each painted tree into a musical note, or "tree note", creating a full symphony. The symphony was then copyrighted as a means to halt pipeline construction. Rahmani's project demonstrates how art can both legally preserve and celebrate nature. Label by Isabel Williams