The Fence Thief

Performer, wood, rope, harness, tools / 11:01 minute video / 2007

The Fence Thief tells a fairytale-like story of an arborist who steals a painted fence from someone's yard, then drives it to a hidden location. Cutting the fence into pieces, he backpacks the comically-large bundle of boards into the forest. Finding a fittingly tall tree, he uses the wood to create a color-coded ladder up its side, eventually disappearing into the canopy.