I present the aerial view of my habitat in its entirety. It is a map of the crystal mount in the center with large-spired, emerald green-lit plexiglass crystals at the top, which can be seen from all of the alcoves of my mandala-like habitat. There will be a red laser beam pointing to the heavens from the top of the mount. There are six alcoves, and each alcove presents one tree. The viewer must walk around the mount to see each tree in its alcove. The alcoves will have black dividers. The height of each divider will be up to five feet tall and up to eight feet in length, so that the viewer will not be able to see the other alcoves. The trees, made from found logs, have either hand-blown glass crystals growing from them, or brass leaves growing out of copper twigs and steel limbs, or live plants growing out of the tree itself. In the background will be hand-blown glass crystals and scarified, plexiglass crystals of uniform colored lights. There will be hundreds of plexiglass crystal forms to form a forest background. Two of the trees have pulsing lights wrapped around their trunk. I tried using glow-in-the-dark pebbles to represent bioluminescent fungi in the earth, but I was not able to attain good results with that. I will be attempting to grow bioluminescent fungi (Panellus Stipticus) to place in the earth around the trees in my final habitat. The fungi are important because the trees communicate with one another through the fungi spores. People will enter into my habitat on one side greeted by a Mother Tree with felted-wool nests, flowers, fruits and weaver birds and walk, in a clockwise fashion, throughout the created environment.
In the fall, I will be focusing on creating more plexiglass crystal forms, and I will be focusing on the lighting to create six distinct colors, one for each alcove. The colors I would like to have are emerald, garnet, jasper, diamond, sapphire, and onyx.