Norcross Art Project Will Bring Blue Hue to Painted Trees

Get your paint gear ready because Norcross is asking the community to help turn the trees blue in Thrasher Park this weekend.

The city is participating in a social art project known as The Blue Trees, a three-day installation starting Friday, April 5. It involves artists and locals to paint the park's trees an electric blue color with a specially made non-toxic pigment, according to a news release from the city's Public Relations and Marketing Manager Tixie Fowler. The trees will remain a vivid blue for approximately six to seven months before the color naturally fades.

The concept for the project was started by Australian artist Konstantin “Kon” Dimopoulos, who will be in Norcross assisting with the installation. Dimopoulos has transformed the trees in cities such as Melbourne, Vancouver, Seattle and Sacramento. After Norcross, he'll be turning the trees in Albuquerque and possibly New York and Paris.

The Blue Trees project asks the question "Can art save the world?" by calling attention to global deforestation and its impact on Earth. About 32 million acres of forests were converted to other uses or lost to natural causes each year between 2000 and 2010, according to a 2010 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Read the full article on Norcross Patch.

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