Port votes on which of UT4 to buy

Yesterday the Public Art Committee decided how to spend the $40,000 budget they had set aside to purchase some of the Trees from the previous year, as they have done with each UT iteration.

After some debate, the pieces chosen were as follows:
Orange Tree by Guy and Ellen Mayenobe
Hellicoid III by Robert Pietruszewski
San Diego Synergy by Kent Kraber

Jim Trask's Oops...There Goes Another Rubber Tree Plant! was also named as an alternate.

Some of the criteria being considered are how well the pieces are made and of what materials, how difficult it would be to site the work elsewhere in the city (trees purchased from past UT rounds no longer have spaces allotted to them on the waterfront), how accessible the concept of each piece is to the public, and, of course, how much the artists listed each piece for.

Lance Jordan's Aquamarine Dream was also high on the committee members' lists. Director Sass praised the craftsmanship of the work, but the committee decided it would be too difficult to find a suitable site for the work.