A single Deer Valley aspen becomes the starting point and the structure.

The Giving Tree rises as a vertical column, alternating slices of aspen and translucent spacers are stacked and illuminated, forming a luminous trunk shaped by many individual parts. The outer silhouette remains legible, while light moves through the spaces between slices, revealing connection through separation.

This tree was sourced locally and prepared by numerous hands. Its pieces were cut, dried, chared, and sanded. From that process come the "wood cookies" you see here. Each slice carries a unique fingerprint, a record of time, environment, and growth.

In the sculpture, the integrity of these wood cookies rely on and support one another in their configuration. Each guest represented by one piece from the same tree, distinct, yet inseparable from the whole.

The Giving Tree establishes the core idea of Slopes: individuals shape the moment, but wholeness is only revealed when those individual contributions are brought into alignment.

One tree. Many impressions. A shared structure.

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