TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

my local community of Yellow Spring, Ohio, wanted to have one of my sculptures. since we already have a fountain, the yellow spring, i determined that the town is a tree town, with not just\r\na tree committee but it is surrounded by forests and parks: Glen Helen. it is also a community of education: various schools like Antioch College, and other such institutions and teachers along with writers, publishers, and artists and engineers and the like. i determined that a tree of books would best represent the community. the trunk is molded from real books and the foliage is fabricated bronze sheet metal. \r\n on the sculpture there is down low a bespeckled " book worm", in the foliage there is a "tree house" and a "book plate" in reference to Antioch Bookplate Co.