HAPPY LITTLE TREEZ

For her senior capstone project, Maya True-Fogel wanted to explore a new art medium separate from her music. So, she decided to take copper wire and transform it into “Happy Little Treez,” her Bonzai-type metal tree creations.

Maya gets a lot of inspiration from Bobby Duke Arts, a YouTuber, because he always tries out different types of art and pushes people to try new things. After watching a video he made about wire trees, she knew she wanted to learn how to make them.

Maya learned how to make the trees by watching YouTube videos and looking at photos of trees online. Throughout her senior year, she kept experimenting with different gauges of wire, different colors, different bases, constantly pushing the complexities of her trees. She tried to make a tree a day, a challenge Mr. Padlo set her on. Even if Maya wasn’t completely satisfied with how the tree turned out, it allowed her to keep growing and improving as an artist. Mr. Padlo also challenged her to go even bigger, and that’s exactly what she did.

Over the course of a couple of months, Maya began to work on her biggest tree ever, consisting of over 300 strands of copper wire. The 300-strand tree (pictured right) is the proudest accomplishment of her whole project as it not only took hours but showed just how far she had come from when she started at the beginning of the year.

A few of her pieces are shown below, but you can follow her work on her Instagram feed!

For commissions and pricing, please direct message her on Instagram.

CAPSTONE PROJECT • HAPPY LITTLE TREEZ ~ MAYA TRUE-FOGEL, ORCHESTRA 2020