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: 239
Latest Activity: yesterday

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 Heleen de Vaan on August 19, 2013 at 9:51pm: Amazing tree, Katerina, and the figure even has an arm and 'real' hand, I see! I love olive trees, that is, their trunk is so beautiful to draw!

Beautiful work of art, Sara!

And also all other trees are a joy to see, thank you all for sharing!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 19, 2013 at 1:26pm: Olive tree in neighbors yard:

See a figure standing there?

Comment by Dan Mouer on August 14, 2013 at 12:32pm: Very nice, Sara!

Comment by Sara Lauwereins on August 14, 2013 at 9:12am

Comment by Dan Mouer on August 13, 2013 at 5:35pm: I sit on my back porch in the evening watching life carry on in the canopy of this American Elm tree over my head.

Comment by Dr. Baron Joseph A. Uphoff, Jr. on August 5, 2013 at 11:04pm: This photograph was found in a box of old pictures from 1949; originally in black and white, the green color resulted from saturation and hue adjustment.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 5, 2013 at 2:58pm: Painted envelope The tree and the animals

Comment by Dr. Baron Joseph A. Uphoff, Jr. on July 31, 2013 at 11:41pm: Winter trees...glad it is summer!

Comment by Karin Hofvander on July 27, 2013 at 9:26am: So fun that they have saved the tree to be used as seating and decoration!

Comment by Dr. Baron Joseph A. Uphoff, Jr. on July 26, 2013 at 11:29pm

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