The Tree Is Just a Context

Sculptor Dan Webb Reduces a Douglas Fir to Sawdust Before Your Very Eyes in His New Performance Piece, Break It Downby Jen GravesThe sun is shining, and Dan Webb is talking about Christmas and death. "Doesn't it smell like Christmas?" the Seattle artist asks. It does smell like Christmas, because there's a Douglas fir lying at his feet, cut down not four hours ago.We're on the porch of a wood shack in the middle of the grounds of the Olympic Sculpture Park on the waterfront. It's a hot and silly