Improving on God’s work with your tax dollars: Blue trees

“I think that I shall never
see, a poem as lovely as a tree..” Clearly poet Joyce
Kilmer never saw the Oompah Loompah trees about to spring
up around our area.

The King County arts group 4Culture says it’s launching
a major new project to make people aware of global
deforestation by painting dozens of local trees blue.

The Daily Journal of Commerce reports
volunteers will paint 16 trees at Seattle’s Westlake Park
and another 40 along the Burke-Gilman trail.

“You know how much I love it when artists take our tax
money to create their vision,” remarked Dori when he heard
about the project.

Listen to
Why blue trees have Dori seeing red

“God made trees all brown, which is gross and all
bumpy,
but now we’ve got Kon (the artist) and the King County
Arts Commission and they are improving on what God did,”
Dori laughs derisively.

The temporary art exhibit uses water based paint that
slowly dissolves over time, and is modeled on several
others around the world.

Here’s a look at a similar project up in the Vancouver
area:

On his website, artist Konstantin Dimopoulos says:

“The Blue Trees is a social art action. Through
colour I am making a personal statement about the
spirituality of trees and their importance to our very
survival: trees are the lungs of the planet.”

Suffice it to say, the blue trees have Dori seeing red.

“We are so goodhearted here that we are going to make
people aware of global deforestation by painting a few
trees blue and spending your tax dollars to do it. Public
artists are the biggest blood sucking leaches in the
history of mankind.”

Not surprisingly, Dori says 4Culture wouldn’t return
his multiple calls for a response.