"Take That!", Asian Beetle

''Defunct'' (2004) by Roxy Pain, a 47-foot stainless steel tree sculpture in Aspen.

Landscape architects are always looking for interesting site amenities or artwork to give a plaza or streetscape project extra pizzazz.

Artist Roxy Paine, who studied at the College of Santa Fe and the Pratt Institute in New York, has had his work internationally exhibited since 1990 and is included in major collections. His work is either "naturalistic"??"precise reproductions of natural objects, or mechanical??"conceptual machines.

"Transplant" (2001) by Roxy Paine, stainless steel and concrete, 46 feet tall, Cadiz, Spain.

His tree sculptures are quite eye-catching and intriguing. When his 50-foot stainless steel tree ''Bluff'' (2002) was installed in Central Park, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke at the occasion, noting Paine's work was New York's response to the damage to park trees by the Asian long-horned beetle.

Roxy Paine was born in 1966 and lives and works in Brooklyn and Treadwell, NY.