Created by 2025 Land Art Resident Christina LaFontaine, this oversized spider rests quietly among the trees. Sculpted from weeping willow and cottonwood branches, it blends into its surroundings, both creepy and graceful, a reminder of the intricate balance between beauty, fear, and the wild intelligence of nature.

Created by 2025 Land Art Resident Amy Stocky, Nature Throne is composed of materials gathered from the land and other meaningful places. Its seat is crafted from a piece of The Cold Stream, the fishing boat once owned by renowned Astoria poet and fisherman Dave Densmore, anchoring the work in both place and story. The piece invites visitors to pause, reflect, and sit within a throne shaped by memory, nature, and human connection.

Created by 2025 Land Art Resident Christina LaFontaine, this oversized caterpillar serves as a companion to the Willow Spider. Sculpted from weeping willow and cottonwood branches, it rests quietly near the treehouse, camouflaged within the landscape, a playful reminder of transformation, growth, and the hidden wonders that inhabit the natural world.

A 15’ x 20’ spiral installation by 2025 Land Art Resident Megan Chin, Altered is composed of materials gathered from the land and the artist’s garden. Each section holds a unique collection of foraged elements, bark, flowers, leaves, pinecones, and more. Through this piece, Megan explores themes of precarity, indeterminacy, and the quiet ways nature adapts and transforms through contact and change.

Created by Sabine and Shannon Amidon, the Key Tree is an ode to The Starless Sea, a quiet mystery revealed slowly. At first, the keys seem invisible, hidden among branches and bark. But once you notice one, your eyes begin to find dozens more, glinting like secrets waiting to be discovered.

Created by artist Rose Covert for Terra Incognita, The Verdancy Project’s 2023 Land Art Exhibition, this large willow structure was crafted from branches harvested across the Pacific Northwest. The den invites visitors to step inside, pause, and experience the gentle strength and sheltering nature of willow, a space shaped by both human hands and the landscape itself.

Our Nature Loom is an outdoor, collaborative art piece made from branches, twine, and natural materials. Visitors are invited to weave flowers, leaves, grasses, and other found items from the land into the frame, creating ever changing patterns that shift with the seasons.

Once a piano that filled rooms with music, this instrument now rests quietly among the trees. Time and nature have transformed it, moss, leaves, and vines composing their own slow symphony. Though it no longer plays, it continues to resonate as a reminder of renewal, decay, and the beauty of collaboration between human creation and the natural world.

Created by 18 Bees, the Bee Tree is a natural log hive that offers wild honey bees a place to live as they would in the wild. The bees are not fed, treated, or disturbed, and their honey is never harvested. It exists simply as a quiet habitat, an invitation to coexist and observe nature’s own rhythm.