The “Telephone Tree” is an environmental art installation gone bad.
When Barry Robinson, 65, found three iconic red telephone booths in a British dump, he decided to take them home and recycle them for an eco art project. He fastened all three phone booths, in their entirety, to a three-pronged 20 foot metal girder, creating a bright red, tree-like structure complete with patriotic flags.
He was heralded for his green initiative… until it became a public eyesore when he plunked it on a field in Hurley, Warwickshire.
"As far as I’m concerned it’s an eyesore.
"We live in a tranquil village and I don’t really expect to wake up in the morning and open the window to see three telephone boxes stuck up a 20ft girder across a field which for the last 20 years has been green.
"As far as I’m concerned it's a blot on the landscape. We are in a village and it is fairly rural.
"There's nothing wrong with people wanting to preserve British heritage, there's a time and a place for everything."
(telegraph)
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