Kat Alves Photography

Kat Alves Photography


Kat Alves Photography
Kat Alves Photography

Two Collectors
2024
Acorn woodpeckers, abundant in Northern California oak woodlands, obsessively cover tree trunks with holes and pack them with acorns. They collect and hoard more acorns than they will ever need. Like the Acorn Woodpecker, the artist has been collecting seeds and pods for decades. All of the seeds and pods used for this sculpture are from trees local to the Sacramento area. The sculpture is a bronze table, pecked and packed with acorns and covered with seeds and pods.
bronze, steel
30" X 3' X 16'

Kat Alves Photography

Kat Alves Photography

On the Del Rio Trail, Sacramento, CA
Commissioned by The City of Sacramento
City project manager: Donald Gensler
Artist's project manager: Shelly Willis
Fabrication: Independent Casting, Philadelphia, PA.
special thanks to The Sacramento Tree Foundation.

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An Acorn Woodpecker