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a funny tree yarn

Colorful tree art has snagged the world's imagination!
   

 

The first hint of an Ohio art renaissance caught our attention in the news last week. It told of a new form of tree art; colorful knitted pieces worn by a pear tree in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
  
After playing some phone tag, we finally spoke with multi-media artist Nancy Mellon about the project. It all began as a public art project in October 2007. The first venue was this lucky street tree in front of the Emporium coffee shop.
  

Photo: Corrine Bayraktaroglu

When the art group was asked WHY?
  they posted this on their JafaGirlArt web site:

Because we can, because it's fun,
because it makes people smile,
because it brightens up a dreary winter's day,
because children go ooooooh!aaaaaaaah!
because!!!!!!
Life is too short to be getting yer knickers in a knot

The project has been great fun for the artists, donors, town folk and passers by. Pockets have been added to some of the knit pieces, leading to poems, pictures and jokes being deposited for all to share.
   
In the midst of all the media hubbub, the KnitKnot Tree boasts a new honor -- a young couple was married beneath the tree on Friday, March 14th.
  
Word has it they made quite a pear!
  


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