The Blue Trees

The blue-​ness of these trees gets one star for many reasons:
— environmentally speaking, the info about the trees says the dye is eco-​friendly and will wash away, but it’s been there for… two years? Well over a year at least and a summer of UV lighting and a winter of abundant rain have hardly made it fade. Makes me very questionable about this.
— as artistic statement: painting some trees to make a statement about trees. Not original. Tying a bow around it, shining a light on them would do the same thing, having someone wave a flag and point to the trees. That might be more amusing actually.
— as a statement, there may have been a tiny sign somewhere explaining the meaning of painting the trees, but I had to look it up online to see what it was about. So the statement is incredibly ineffective. It relies on the viewer to be concerned so much about the color of the trees that they either look it up on their phone or remember to look it up later.

Blue Trees in the middle of Seattle. The perfect place to stop and admire this work of Art paid for by the City of Seattle.
These bright blue tree trunks can be seen at Westlake Park on Pine Street. This work of art is one of the reasons I love
Seattle because Seattle people love their art. We learned Artist Konstantin Dimopoulous, an artist from Austrailia,
wants to make people aware of global deforestation as 32 million trees are estimated to be lost yearly according to
the UN to other uses. The super cool part is that the bright blue is not a paint but a mixture of blue rock and water
that is non– toxic and will wash off with the rain. People of all ages will enjoy this and be astounded at how blue they
are. It is so amazing because trees, being blue, are not normal and more out of a scene from the Lorax but even the
Lorax’s trees aren’t this colorful and brilliant. Go take this in. You’ll be glad that these attractive trees helped make
you aware of how many trees are being taken down by acts of nature or people.