Trees with Socks

During our trip to the Seattle area last week, we happened upon a small park in Redmond where they had this interesting artwork.

Here’s an online article that explains why these trees have socks.  In the article they’re described as ‘sweaters’, but if they were sweaters they would be up in the branches of the trees, wouldn’t they ???

by SUSAN WYATT / KING 5 News

REDMOND, Wash. - The trees in a small park in downtown Redmond are about to become much more colorful.

For her installation of "Artificial Light" in Anderson Park, fiber artist Suzanne Tidwell will knit multicolored "sweaters" for 50 trees.

Beginning Feb. 18, Tidwell will be working in the park for two weeks, sewing the artwork on at least 50 trees. The exhibition will open on March 8.

Tidwell installed a similar exhibition in Occidental Park in Seattle last summer.

"When I see a ball of yarn, I instantly know what it should be," said Tidwell. "For me, art is the realization of the many ideas I see in my head, manipulating these pictures over and over in my mind until my idea is clear enough to become something real."

Anderson Park is the oldest park in the city, created in 1928.