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
Discussion Forum
Trees. 2 Replies
Autumn, forest, solitude. Heaven on earth. Continue
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Started by Judith Dagan. Last reply by Judy Skolnick Oct 22, 2022.
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Comment by Karin Greenwood on December 11, 2011 at 4:48pm
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I like your trees. Trees also have to have a rest, to begin again.
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Comment by Heleen de Vaan on December 11, 2011 at 2:36pm
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A tree-in-autumn / winter. I'll send this today to a country where the trees keep their leaves all-over the year (I think), to the Works on Paper project:
And to my surprise I got the address of a Postcrosser who in her profile only wrote she loves trees (and flowers, and green) and selfmade cards.
So a new opportunity to create an other tree!
Looking from the window I only see leave-less trees. Just now I realize that also she lives in a place where trees don't lose their leaves (Arizona). So this one isn't a dead tree either, but just a tree in a deep, deep winter sleep.Finally this Trees group inspired me to finish a piece of mail art I was trying to make already for a long time. Below a detail (text says: 'Window, overlooking a tree').
I hope the receiver will appreciate the complete picture (but I'm not sure..).
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Comment by Ruud Janssen on December 11, 2011 at 12:59pm
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Trees inside this envelope for you Guido!
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Wow!! all the photos I have seen of trees are are beautiful !!!
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Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on December 11, 2011 at 3:04am
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"Mr. Hilton, a pioneer, told his wife that he was going to Little River for wood. She asked to go with him. ... She hadn't seen a tree for two years, and when they arrived at Little River she put her arms around a tree and hugged it until she was hysterical."
-- from a letter in Joanna Stratton's 1981 book Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier (19th century U.S.)
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Comment by Janette Jones on December 11, 2011 at 2:55am
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After the cyclone; rain, wind, flooding; it was lovely to walk in the vine forest and enjoy the sunshine.
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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 10, 2011 at 11:54pm
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Another splendid tree book is THE LANGUAGE OF TREES
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One of the best books on trees I ever saw and part of my library: THE FOREST OF SHADOWS by Benjamin Stassen with magical photos from the Belgian Ardennes region
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Comment by prettylily on December 10, 2011 at 11:34pm
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Fabulous photos. All of them! Guido, I really like how you describe the group. All of that hugging........so true!
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THE MURDER OF THE MAGICAL FOREST, one of my collages with graphic materials from 19th century magazines, a bit scary but one of my best works (own appreciation)
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