Here is a further development of the tree. I'm really happy using the x rays, a good durable lightweight plastic, that is also recycled, and contains such great images and variations of colour and tone, some translucent and some opaque. The cut panels also project really great shadows - the negative space of the leaf image which has been cut from the panel.
As I mentioned to Wanda although I love the EL wire it kind of complicates the imagery when you add it - maybe there will be another use for it. What I am thinking at the moment is small LED downlights, one at the top of each trunk, that are sensor activated, so that they come on gently, not abruptly, when you walk near them - maybe a dimmer is needed for this . . unless you can buy some that come on and off slowly. It doesn't need bright light to work, the light from a single globe is enough to illuminate the leaves around the trunk.
