TREES

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A group devoted to the art of trees: free medium. Without trees the world would be dead and a place of disaster. With trees the world can tackle global warming. Hug a tree and you hug the earth, you hug yourself and your neighbors. Without trees, no love!

Without love, no trees.

A sequel to the mail art project SIGNS and STONES and TREES (of 1998).

Guido Vermeulen started this group. After his death the IUOMA members keep it alive with posting photos and drawings of TREES in memory of Guido.

Location: Worldwide, global
Members: 243
Latest Activity: Sep 5

THE MAGIC OF TREES

Dear Guido,

I love trees!

Trees are so good to us, giving us oxygen to breathe, cleaning our water, providing shade in their life and shelter in their death.

They give us this paper, the pencil I write words with, and the envelope I painted.

Trees are magical, like all plants, magical little things that grow into magical big thins that are essential to so many of us other magical life forms in this amazing, magical universe.

TREES ARE MAGIC.

When I am with trees, big and small, I wonder like a child.

I know the scientific explanations of their life cycles and the processes of their doings.

I have even listened to trees as recorded by a hydrophone as their cells thirsted for water.

Still, no amount of knowledge can evaporate the mist of awe and wonder I feel in the presence of trees.

Trees are our kindred.

They, too, are born to live. And born to die.

In between they are silent witnesses to the magic of the universe.

Happy Earth Day,

Sarah Jo Pender, USA

From the Indiana Women’s Prison

April 2012

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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 8, 2012 at 7:00pm: Dear Monique,

Gold does not grow in banks!

(Tree wisdom)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 8, 2012 at 3:49am: About my boxer short in the American flag / GIFT from Marilyn Dammann who passed away in 2005, and a real and genuine REBEL

Put them on during a memory celebration in my garden to honour her and have been putting them on in my flat forever and ever, I ll always love you, forever and ever

(I say a little prayer, Aretha Franklin)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 8, 2012 at 3:44am: Great photos from my youth friend Simonne Pauwels in Hawaii, trees grow in the prisons over there!

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 7, 2012 at 2:09am: These marvelous woodcut prints arrived on my birthday from Emilio Carrasco, Mexico (2 prints, one I scanned also detail)

Comment by Ruud Janssen on March 6, 2012 at 4:38pm: a complete street full with these wonderful trees.....

Comment by Ruud Janssen on March 6, 2012 at 4:37pm: These trees I pass every day when I go to College for the past 6 years. This is how they look in early spring before things start to grow......

Comment by Jennifer Jones (JJalltheway) on March 6, 2012 at 11:55am: Sounds like a lovely birthday Guido. Have a happy 58!

Comment by Zois on March 6, 2012 at 3:09am: What a great age to be! Looks like a good time was had by all. And, perfect celebratory pants! What fun I'm having too, getting to see your birthday.

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on March 6, 2012 at 2:28am: Mirroring trees--I will think about that until sleep comes. Pleasantly.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 6, 2012 at 1:53am: HOW BEAUTIFUL LIFE COULD BE IF WE ALL MIRRORED THE TREES

My 58th birthday present to all of you!

No image of trees needed here, but inspired somehow by watching and reading again the play about the 3 sisters (Anton Tchekov). So great! I discussed this for hours with CV, Jewish Sandinista neighbor who visited me on my b-day with her dog who is nuts about me but my cats do not share the same feeling!

Process documented on

http://kiekjesdief.blogspot.com

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