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Hey kids, you know I've been back for a month now from making the Tree of Light (and other good stuff in Taiwan.) Come watch this entertaining and informative talk on all the things it took to create such colossal art and living there for 5 STRAIGHT MONTHS!

Here it is, live in all its glory. It will live in this beautiful valley- not far from the river. It's positioned to open up into the river and follow it down out of the mountains. Open Your Heart nicely reflects the sky above and filters all the sunlight through like stained glass. There are lots of neat interactions, like seeing one lightning bolt through another and color changes through the acrylic. At night, you can see it for miles as a beacon of love and unity for the whole area! Hope you enjoyed it, more love and light to come :-)

I'm just going to pile on a whole bunch of shots of the Tree- enjoy! What do you think?

I know, it's sounds like one of those cool fantasy adventure books with gnomes and elves who glow in the dark, right? Well, it's ACTUALLY about a part of the project you haven't seen... Because we didn't make it yet! You see, we originally designed a beautiful gateway for the Tree of Light plaza at Motus Square. But you don't see it in this image: We hadn't designed it for the original pitch! Also, it'd be off-screen to the left in this image anyway. It was decided that we'd need a gateway to control access so you have to COME IN to experience the Tree of Light. Otherwise, tourists will just treat it as a "drive-by" experience, where they hop out of a vehicle, pose for some pics, and move along. We have plans for events and workshops, classes and special things that partner with local B n B's etc so locals can get some benefit as well. So we needed an entry essentially. Also, we REALLY wanted it to be like WOW! Here it is! THIS is it! 😀 Make entering a big deal and an experience all it's own. I also wanted to tie it in with the heart sculpture I designed, which lives a few blocks down the road. Here's my original sketch of the heart: So we took some elements of the heart and built on them- like the scrolls, the heart shape, and the big "open your heart" keyhole. Here's my digital design: See how that works? We moved the heart up, opened the center a bit, added a door-sized keyhole entry, and some fun scrolls and hearts to support it all! This design is about 15 feet wide and over 12 feet tall. Here's my visualization in place: It's very similar in feel to how the heart is coming together (still working on that now, more details soon! Here's a pic of that: They're like art cousins, right? But then, of course, we ran into a few snags 😊 First, it turns out that were NOT leasing the entire space I designed it to fit into! That driveway in the photo... The neighbor's property line cuts into it by about 3 feet! Laiji is owned by 4 or 5 families who control different strips of land- a cousin here, a brother there, maybe inlaw's. I could shrink the whole design, but that would make the door too skinny to walk through. Also, the Tree of Light budget went a bit over so we don't have the means to build it right now. But it's on the table still, as we're planning some more elements to the space that require a gateway to get in, some fencing, etc. So stay tuned! I bet you'll see it in the next few months 😉

We're finally unveiling her to the world, after almost a month spent on design, engineering, quarantine, and dressing up all the details with dozens of workers, volunteers, and cute puppies helping ☺️ With a dozen media crews and almost 200 guests from nine native villages in attendance, we kicked it off with song, dancing, light, and a sumptuous feast despite POURING rain all day long. The picture above is all of the sponsors, designers, and government VIPs turning on our candles as the Tree of Light is lit up for the first time! All the major news outlets drove 4 hours (one way!) from Taipei to cover the opening here in Laiji village. Here's one story from that night: Most of you won't get a lot of what they're saying... but that's the local county official and then me with Corbett Wall, who is my partner in Taiwan on this project. You can read more about him in my first post on this project. We had the Laiji church choir singing, plus a Rabbi from Taipei and local native singer Tanivu belting out the Tashan Tree of Light song! We had a great feast afterwards, with all manner of delicious food, including some local fare and even an entire roasted pig 😋 That's my house puppy pal Malu begging some tasty treats while I'm about to enjoy a local specialty- rice and pork cooked in a bamboo stalk! Us VIPs got first taste of the crackling pig skin. They even unknowingly offered some to the rabbi, who graciously declined! It was a great cap to over a month's worth of hard work and planning that put a big smile on lots of faces. Next, we're adding even MORE lights outside and some twinkly touches inside to finish off the Tree of Light.

After that last post, I took a little walk all the way to the outskirts of town. It didn't take long- I could still see the Tree of Light from the farthest point! Here's some highlights: The boar is their adopted local symbol- lots of people have them as mailboxes. Every house has many many plants outside. I couldn't even capture all the ones here! Farther out of town, where locals farm or build. None of the roads are straight here. This next building was abandoned and nearly overgrown. There's a patio here that is completely inaccessible. I really liked this little path along a drainage area just next to where the kids hang out at the basketball courts. On Christmas day, a stage-in-a-truck pulled up to the basketball court and there were local talent shows, a raffle with bikes and household goods, and other fun! Here's where I'm staying, just below that blue line. The basketball court is just around that bend. There's a good deal of "house on a house on a house" structures here. People build spaces as they need them. Another view: I'm inside that patio! I can't go out to it, but there's a cat who likes to howl out there. This is all actually part of that big B n B area in the photo below. It all gets built up on top of the last thing. The tour buses actually back in around this tight corner to the right of the Tree of Light below! So it's a great spot to draw attention to the area- a group jumped out of that bus and started taking some photos of it as I was watching. It may actually be the tallest thing in town!

I've shown you a lot about the Tree of Light, about me, and the design and build process. Let's go around town a little here in Laiji village. This is the entry to our HQ/ basecamp/ living space for the last few weeks. Many of the entry ways are just like this. Here's across from us- the roads are pretty skinny here and there's usually a car parked on one side and maybe a dog or two lying in that intersection! Depending on what part of town you're in, buildings can be more modern or rustic (made of bamboo or stone gathered nearby.) Here's a rustic house at the corner: I haven't been inside, but it looks more like a workspace than a home. They're drying seeds, spices, and nuts outside pretty often. This is a home around the corner with white grout on the red bricks- I thought the bricks were painted on at first! Age varies on these homes- some got lost in the 2009 typhoon from mudslides or falling rocks and were replaced in the relief efforts. My friend here tells me everyone in town knows someone who was killed by a huge boulder then. Here's some more modern built housing. Not sure if this is rental/ B n B or a home. Tourism is a big source of income here, so who knows? Here's the main road in town, near what they lovingly refer to as "downtown Laiji" because it's where all the restaurants and shops are: Our room and the houses I just showed are down and around the bend to the left. There's the Tree of Light rising up on the right just behind the B n B with the patio where I've taken lots of pics of it. 4 or 5 families and in-laws own much of the land here. The diner where we grab breakfast is in the orange building on the left, and the owners have some relation to the B n B owners on the right. Ahead and just on the road to the left is the big B n B in town where many of the tours stop, learn about native culture and food, and where they park the tour buses. Here's their open air dining and outdoor spot where tourists meet local dancers: Here's the cafe I'm in right now just next to the other B n B on the main street: It's got a more modern menu (listed in English and Chinese!) that serves up curry, pan-Asian, some fancy beers and a great warm atmosphere. Just across the way is the lunch cafe- a simpler spot with tasty traditional and regional food that many workers and locals enjoy: Both are run by just a few people and don't really have walls. This one isn't even a building! Just bamboo and tarps. That's all the restaurants in town! There's another about 15 minutes away at the entry to town. Then the next one is 45 minutes from there. Many people here work at one of these eateries, at the B n B's or doing tours or dancing at shows. They also hunt, farm, do manual day labor in other areas or make wood crafts or build things. One afternoon sitting on our porch at HQ, the neighbors proudly announced they'd trapped a wild boar! The hunter, a tough stout man in his 60's, carried it down from his trap on a cliff face alone to his truck to bring it home. By dinner that night, we were eating boar ribs (and so was that dog!) So that's life up here in the mountains of Laiji. Come visit and enjoy all it has to offer 😊

You've seen the skeleton of the tree going up, let's see some finish on it. I don't have as much documentation of this part because, honestly, it was kind of bananas! At one point we had half a dozen steel workers welding ... with acrylic workers cutting and hanging panels and another set of electrical contractors laying in power all at once. All up and down the same 6 level structure with sparks flying, grinding metal, cutting, climbing, sawing... And I had to make sure they were all getting things right! Here's an in-progress shot after about 15 workers had finished adding acrylic panels, metal mesh and electrical outlets all the way up to the top beacon: It's turning into something ain't it? Compare it to this shot, just a day or so earlier: I had to make sure all the acrylic panels went in the right places- each level has 4 identical sides with two mesh and two acrylic panels. And their orientation rotates 90 degrees each level. A few times they were installing them facing the wrong way. You can see it's designed for the heart to skip a level on each side, from the doors and windows all the way up with acrylic panels. The same with the stars and the mesh panels. It's a tricky design if you're not the one who created it 😉 And I had to do it all with translators and lots of hand gestures! After this was a long night of hanging up rope lights and native artwork along the mesh on the inside and outside with a crane and lots and lots of zip ties. Next: the Grand unveiling- with tons of press, live musical performances in the Tree of Light, VIP guests, dancing and a killer banquet!

Continuing the saga of building my heart sculpture...Open Your Heart. Earlier I showed you some of the design process, from idea to scribbles and on to digital design and metal cutting. Here's a bit more! The heart held up by a few cool helpers as we prepare it for acrylic: That huge colorful pile on the left is all parts for the heart and the Tree of Light- over 20 acrylic panels! Also, that's Jack and Eli, twins who grew up here in Taiwan with American parents and speak fluent Chinese 😃 They were a huge help in communicating with the workers. The Open Your Heart sculpture is two matching sides and a set of flat panels running the perimeter of it's inner edge. Here's one side with some acrylic secured to it: It's got an alternating red/pink/orange/yellow color scheme with pink and red accents on opposite sides. The acrylic is held in with silicone and the two sides will be screwed together to a stand after all the lights are inside it. Here it is on its stand with some supports while they tested the fit on a few pieces: This is more of the acrylic in place with the heart near its permanent home- down a ways from the Tree of Light by a multimedia dome theater run by the same group that commissioned the tree. See that white circle in the pic below? That's the dome, as seen from my room around the corner from the Tree of Light! We're still finishing up the heart sculpture right now, due to a comedy of errors revolving around one piece of the acrylic cutting process that delayed putting it all together 🤪 But I swear it's going to be amazing!