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.

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Members: 239
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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 Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 22, 2013 at 2:51pm: Cherry tree blossoming in Greece

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 21, 2013 at 5:24pm: Trees near the river Schelde (l’Escaut in French)

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 17, 2013 at 12:31pm: Myrtle tree over-the-wall next door :

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 17, 2013 at 1:08am: Bedankt Heleen!

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on April 16, 2013 at 11:48pm: Beautiful drawings by artist Drago Pečenica, who seems to love trees, too!
While searching the internet for something else, I happened to find his works and his website.

These really are drawings! Amazing, isn't it? He uses the so-called 'scraperboard' technique. The picture above is called 'De weg is open' = 'The way/road is opened'.

On his website (alas in Dutch only) I read some nice citations about trees.
About the pollard willows ('knotwilg' in Dutch): "Pollard willows look like me. Also my life has been trimmed, nevertheless new branches are growing out of it".
And trees inspire: "In a piece of tree bark I always discover millions of details".

The tree below is titled 'Hier ben ik' = 'Here I am'.

You can find more amazing scraperboard drawings by Drago Pečenica here, some pen drawings here, and etchings here..

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 16, 2013 at 1:35am: The womb

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 13, 2013 at 11:54pm: Collage Le carré blanc

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 8, 2013 at 11:07pm: Artist book from Amuldo, IN THE FOREST

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 8, 2013 at 11:03pm: Spring amongst the trees, from Fleur Helsingor

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 6, 2013 at 6:00pm: Fig tree today, Saturday, just beginning to open green...

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