49 signs spaced 12'-0" on center in a square grid. The entire work would be approximately 85 feet on a side. The signs and posts would be fabricated to highway standards. The existing bike trail would pass through the center of this "industrial grove of trees".

I found the tree icon particularly significant for this town and site as the name of the town was inspired from the Aspen trees in the surrounding hills . And, most of the trees surrounding this clearing are Aspens. As walkers, joggers, and bikers pass through this "grove" my intention was to provide the viewer with a contradiction that wiould raise issues of: the symbol vs. the unique, industrial vs. natural, and how the symbols in our world can flatten our understanding of the world around us rather than illuminate it.

After having visited the Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, Colorado in the summer of 1997 I developed this proposal for the clearing and bike path running beside the museum front door. The bike trail is a major thoroughfare of the town and follows the Roaring Fork River.