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I am an arborist. An optimist. A mindful maker.

I create temporary art installations as tactile emotional responses to social and environmental issues. With the intention of lifting the spirit and raising awareness of potentially devastating circumstances,

I’ve created “Hope Trees”.

When the Woolsey fire hit, I wanted to breathe life into the ashen, barren landscape. To renew it. To make it sing.

So I recycled colorful textiles and branches downed from the summer’s drought. The fiber became my painter’s palette to artistically articulate the form of a tree. Thoughtfully located, I documented nature’s poetic response with photographer Kerry Perkins.

While I wrap, I ponder the fallen branches, the yarn’s original intention, and the fire’s consequence on the ashen landscape.

I contemplate how we, as a global community, could prevent environmental blight, and can I, by enveloping branches in a makeshift blanket of repurposed textiles, make a difference?

Jen Snoeyink

I will be incorporating photographs of the Woolsey Fire Hope Trees, as well as those from recent burn areas (including the Saddleridge fire, and possibly another).

For opening night only, there will be an interactive assemblage of the Amazon Rain Forest.

Also wrapped branches, fiber art,  and a (small) "Hope Tree" that was used on the photo shoots.

I intend to drape some fiber art on the wall, reminiscent of the rain forest. 

Prints and original artwork will be for sale.

So it will be a mix of fiber art, photographs, assemblage, and mixed media.  - all as an artistic expression of the environmental issue of wildfire that we face here in California and abroad.