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 A note to the viewer from the author. Progress shown from present to past. 08.17.10 Carving what amounts to a series of urban totems. The router I'm using was recommended by Creston Lea.

But Creston eat your heart out, unless that is, you would like to install electirc in these. www.crestonelectric.com

Exact plastic copy of the patterned tree trunk. Inlay next. Plaster/rubber mold and PVC knockout awaiting liquid plastic. Plaster hardshell and blanket rubber mold. Does this make sense? The plaster hardshells sealed, ready to fill with rubber. Disassembling plaster hardshell to remove clay blanket. Clay blanket gets covered with plaster and later replaced with rubber Images of Outremont, Montreal and Le Vesinet lightly scribed. These images will later be carved out of the tree.  06.29.10 The Illustrator templates will be tranformed into cast inlays during subsequent steps – coffee cup is for scale 36" print of Outremont/Le Vesinet templates Trunks at The Barn with one coat of Interlux Brightside Trunks primed with Interlux Prekote system Grinding the excess steel from the base plates  Templates for the base plates and half inch steel plasma cut 06.07.10 Studio view and tree trunks being prepared for paint Plywood template approximates the available space for the work Sawing the bases clean with Tajima Drawing of Le Vesinet, Outremont's kindred city outside of Paris 05.21.10 Map of Outremont routed into prototype .  Voids will accomodate inlays in cast black rubber Cast plaster replica of prototype provides inlay material Blanket mold transfers map to cast plaster Drawning of Outremont, Montreal guides inlay process Rendered proposal for 1160 Van Horne, Montreal. Wood, resin, cast rubber