..:::Desi Tarka:::.. The Tissue Tree...

In all its glory ... Soelae Riley adds the finishing touches to the Kleenex tissue tree. The tree is made from silk and is said to be inspired by the artist Christo who's famed for wrapping monuments all over the world. Sketchy ... details of the tissue tree's initial plans. The design team wanted to create something unique that would honour the 40th anniversary of the artist Christo's wrapping of Little Bay and encourage Ballast ... Shannon Hunt rolls sheet lead to create the 85kg weights that need to be inserted into the base section of each of the tree's five legs. Originally the structure was designed to be water-filled but lead was chosen instead to offer greater stability That's a wrap ... Emmett McLeod gets on with wrapping the branches of the tree. Each section is wrapped in an under layer and then a silken outer layer. A kilometer of each material was used to complete the finished structure...