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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: 232
Latest Activity: on Saturday

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 Guido Vermeulen on March 3, 2012 at 2:11am

Hi Theresa,

Was just working on a collage with 19th century graphics to give to L.

Called it DREAMING ABOUT TREES

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 3, 2012 at 1:10am

Yeah, Lipit is part of a collective that works in an etching and sculpture place called KASBA, some of them are into mail art, but mail art on a personal base, so they have to know you, which make them quite different from networkers like me and others. But I like them anyway (most of them are femail, but I suppose you guessed that from the art photos)>

They are opening their workspace between March 14 and 25 and Lipit intends to give away her wood sculptures to visitors!

In this sense, she is all mail art in my books.....................

and goes further in her approach than some networkers I know

Opening is on March 14 and I will try to attend this event!

GV

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 2, 2012 at 10:00pm

Leaving the woods !!! from Sue Hobbs, South Africa and Lipit, Belgium

Comment by Alicia Starr on March 2, 2012 at 2:43pm

Hi Guido. The upper peninsula of Michigan... Have only seen photo of frozen waves on the shoreline. I too knew someone who had a house up there but he'd died as well. The southern shores of Lake Michigan on the Michigan side are a destination for us land locked people. Warm clear water and gorgeous semi private beaches. I'll send a couple of photos later today. p.s. We haven't had much snow this year. Very unusual.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 2, 2012 at 2:12am

Hi Alicia Hihi,

Reminds me of my visit in 1997 to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in MAY and it was snowing. I was happy like a kid, running outside and taking pictures.

Marilyn Dammann (my host, died in 2005) was quite upset: don’t you think we are fed up with all this snow after 8 months!

Ah, sweet memories ....

G.

Comment by Alicia Starr on March 1, 2012 at 11:58pm

February in Iowa. Believe it or not, this photo is not B/W.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 1, 2012 at 10:52pm

Mis manos han tocado los arboles

como quien acaricia a alguien que duermo

 

I have softly touched the trees

like caressing someone during sleep

 

(Borges, free translation: GV)

Comment by Patricia Alejandra Nuñez on March 1, 2012 at 6:45pm

Hola a todas/os:

Sigo encontrando excelentes propuestas y esta coincide con mí respeto y amor por los àrboles y quiero compartir con ustedes unos dibujos de alumnos de 3ª año de secundaria sobre "El Àrbol de la Vida" que los disfruten. Saludos. Patricia

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 1, 2012 at 2:42am

RAY, RUUD, GUIDO and some other tree survivors or not?

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 1, 2012 at 2:11am

From Heleen de Vaan in The Netherlands:

 

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