We Are Still Children

This piece is meant to bring out the child in our adult selves. We all go out and see a tree and think, "that would be the perfect climbing tree" or "that little space over there would be perfect for a fort." However, very few adults will actually indulge this impulse by climbing the tree or making a fort, so I did it for you. This is a fort for adults.
I wanted viewers to not feel embarrassed for going in this fort, so I made it as open as I could and as inviting as possible, even including a bench for people to sit on.
Also, as I was working, the people who were interested and came over to check it out were all adults.
This is one of the two projects that do not reside at the beach. This one is instead at Bradley Lake Park.

Stacked Clay

In some areas along Owen Beach the clay fractures and slides apart like slate. It is still soft enough to break with your fingers, so I took advantage and made this structure on a log.
Because it is clay and it was raining, the structure became muddy and began to melt even as I was building it.
This piece was heavily inspired by the works of Andy Goldsworthy.

Painted by the Land

The clay here was riddled with differing compositions, some with iron deposits and some with more sand than clay. The blue in this picture is actually just grey clay that was revealed as I carved deeper into the hill.

Castle

I often see spots that make me think, "this would be a perfect fairy home."

Something to note about this clay wall is that it is a water table. Essentially, some layers of the clay soaked up rain water and others didn't, leaving that water to slowly spill out of the permeable rock. This is also the type of thing to drill a well into.
This means that despite this piece being firmly carved under an overhang of trees and rock, it still perpetually dripped water down its surface.

Resting

This piece is the one that started it all. This was the first thing I carved into the clay wall. It is alongside hearts with initials in them, mermaids, and other "so-and-so was here"s.

The Wall Troll

This troll enjoys people-watching folks who wander the beach in the early hours of the morning.

This wall is set in layers, and this particular layer was wonderful to carve into. The curtain takes up the entire height of this layer.

Payphone

This payphone is life size, and the phone number is real. If anyone were to call it on a real phone, they would get the White House.

Springtime Portal

They are made using fallen pine branches and jute string, and at the base of every is a dandelion. The rings are all about 2 feet wide at their widest point, as they are oblong. The rings stretch across a paved walkway, the bottom of them at about 6.5 feet tall.
This is at the Nelson Nature Park.
This piece only lasted a day.

For Context: Where Are These Things?

This is the clay wall that runs long Owen Beach at Dash Point Park. Most of my projects were carved here, with the exception of the fort and the branch rings, which were at different parks.

This wall is full of graffiti. I thought I would include some of the sketches that appeared after I began making my own creations.

Honorable Mentions

These are either complete or incomplete pieces that, for one reason or another, were not included in the final collection.