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The Telephone Tree


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Creative Failures - The Telephone Tree
The Telephone Tree
Published: Jul 17, 08
Views: 1,458

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)

References:  telegraph

Filed In:  art modern








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