Trees: view of tree set being set into concrete foundation during installation in eucalyptus grove. Sherman George and artist Terry Allen at left.

Artist description: "There are three trees. The Poetree is programmed with poems, stories, etc., by different writers, poets, and storytellers whom I invited to send a recorded work they would like people to hear coming out of a tree. The Music Tree is programmed with music by different musicians and songwriters I invited to send a recorded work they would like people to hear coming out of a tree. The Tree of Contents is silent. The names of everyone associated with the project to date are stamped into the lead surface of the Tree of Contents."

• 1986

• Stuart Collection (San Diego, Calif.)

• Allen, Terry (American conceptual artist and musician, born 1943)

• Beebe, Mary Livingstone (American, born 1940)
• Beebe, Mary Livingstone (American, born 1940)

Near the Geisel Library: University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, California, United States

lead; sound systems; eucalyptus trees; nails; concrete

• Foundations (structural elements)
• Installations
• Landscape architecture
• Outdoor sculpture
• Political art
• Public art
• Sculpture
• Site-specific works
• Sound sculpture

• University of California, San Diego--History

• Allen, Terry (American conceptual artist and musician, born 1943)
• George, Sherman

• Adaptive reuse
• American
• Cherry pickers
• Construction (assembling)
• Contemporary
• Cranes (equipment)
• Death
• Forests
• Humor
• Nature
• Recycling
• Satire
• Tombs
• Trees

Point: 32.8784, -117.2405

• image

Architecture and City Planning

Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design

Garden and Landscape

Sculpture and Installations

• UC Regents

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2021-10-08