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: 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 Louise Kiner on December 13, 2011 at 12:43pm: Nice prints, Kat!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 13, 2011 at 8:38am

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 13, 2011 at 8:38am: Beautiful "trees" here! They get better and better with each post.

Some wood-cut printed trees:

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on December 13, 2011 at 5:08am: paper+paint collage, 2010:

Comment by Zois on December 13, 2011 at 4:05am: GREEN: white oak Union College, Schenectady, NY usa.

Comment by irene ronchetti on December 12, 2011 at 10:57pm: hi, guido!...this is a very old tree...

Comment by Eva (Mail Adventures) on December 12, 2011 at 10:15pm: I sent this work to Heleen de Vaan some time ago. It's an altered AD postcard for an exhibition by Isabel Serra (the original left, published here).

Comment by Kerri Pullo on December 12, 2011 at 8:46pm: That is what I thought too Guido! I found these in the Coronado National Forest just north of Tucson, AZ! There were entire fallen trees that had the same designs throughout...it was amazing!

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 12, 2011 at 8:44pm: This is a tree I passed when I walked on Goethe's walk in Switzerland (correction from Lavona Sherarts, USA)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 12, 2011 at 8:41pm: Splendid Kerri: Worm and Wood Asemics !!!

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