For Phoenix, I have imagined this blown up to heroic proportions. To illustrate this, I have simply enlarged the image of the actual small sculpture. In reality, it would be redesigned with more appropriately scaled bark. It may have knots and other points of interest but would be quite simple. I picture it around 2 feet thick and around 20’ tall. It would be made of concrete.
While it would primarily stand as a sculpture, there are so many ways it can be interacted with. I can picture re kids running up to it and trying to jump over; somersaulting over it; balancing on it, as above; trying to shimmy up it a ways; simply sitting on it. One safe advantage is that it would be virtually impossible to get very far up it, let alone to the top. Yet it poses myriad challenges for the more daring kids. I’ve shown some of these in my previous illustrations.