Jason Fanning Standing in the shoes

I decided to create a tree out of a completely artificial material (an
irregularly shaped discarded piece of styrofoam) with a knife in order
to replace a tree that was cut down. The main difficulty I found was
that the styrofoam is difficult to cut evenly (the individual beads tend
to rip off) though this helped provide an impression of a leafy texture
for the canopy.