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TREES

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: 238
Latest Activity: Nov 30

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 Zois on December 14, 2011 at 3:59pm

I love all of these.  Thank you, Guido, for creating it.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 14, 2011 at 2:44am

Photos from small trees forwarded by soul mate Simonne Pauwels on the Fiji Isles

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 14, 2011 at 2:37am

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 14, 2011 at 2:33am

Xmas tree card from Cernjul Viviana, Argentina

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 14, 2011 at 2:30am

Wyndham with Xmas tree, photo received from Lois Klassen, Canada

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 13, 2011 at 10:58pm

LET US REBEL IN THE NAME OF TREES !!!

 

AFTER ANN LET US REBEL REBEL

The deadline for The book of ANN (Friour project 12) is 31 December 2011.

The past year was great on a MAIL ART and KITTY level, so THANX to all who contributed and exchanged art and ideas.

I now present the successor for 2012 and already email my season greetings to YOU ALL.

FRIOUR project 13 is on rebellion, contestation, protest in all its meanings: artistic, political, social, cultural, historical and present ones.

I dedicate this 2012 project to all mail artists who have told me they like my art but PLEASE Guido stay away from politics! They are forgetting that all the great art movements of the modernist past (Dada, Surrealism, Cobra, Situationism) were involved in attempts to change society. So REBEL REBEL aka the essence of art expressions by artists living in society, rooted in all the social and cultural contradictions of the world. Because after all it is not only Wall street we need to occupy because the public domain is our space. Reclaim the streets indeed!!

POWER TO THE PEOPLE, TO THE ANIMALS, TO THE TREES AND TO THE ASTONISHING STONES OF OUR UNIVERSE (it is OUR universe: not belonging to banks, corporations, dictators, the state, the police or other self proclaimed authorities: we are the world, the world are we, so REBEL REBEL till you drop, don’t shop, burn all billboards down, spit on your local flag and embrace humanity as a whole, for XXX sake, REBEL REBEL till the end of time, REBEL against death and REBEL against the way we live or against those who impose us how to live.

Take responsibilty of your own life and destinity, this means also taking responsibility of our planet and existence in our own hands. Don’t depend of power, create your own power, or refute power altogether!

FREE SIZE AND MEDIUM

Deadline: 31 December 2012

All contributions will be published on the blog: http://rebelrebelmovementsofcontestation.blogspot.com

Those who want to BE PART OF this blog, please email me, so I can invite you to UPLOAD YOUR OWN CONTRIBUTIONS TO REBEL REBEL

signsstones@yahoo.com

For regular mail art contributions: REBEL Guido Vermeulen, Thomas Vincottestreet 81, B-1030 Brussels, BELGIUM

PS

Note that ongoing projects in 2012 to be continued will be

TREES (documented on IUOMA)

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/group/trees

KIEKJESDIEF (photos to document our own existenZ)

http://kiekjesdief.blogspot.com

LAMUSAR (art inspired by music and literature)

http://lamusar.blogspot.com

Comment by Nadine Wendell-Mojica on December 13, 2011 at 8:07pm

Love all of these. Certainly brings up beauty.

Comment by Lynn Palmiter, Jr. on December 13, 2011 at 3:13pm

Hi Guido!

What a great idea. I'll be posting some tree picts later today.

Comment by Marcela Peral on December 13, 2011 at 1:59pm

NIDO DE HORNERO EN LA RAMA... ARGENTINA

Comment by Marcela Peral on December 13, 2011 at 1:56pm

PALO BORRACHO.... ARGENTINA

 

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