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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 December 12, 2011 at 8:41pm

Splendid Kerri: Worm and Wood Asemics !!!

Comment by Kerri Pullo on December 12, 2011 at 8:26pm

Found Fallen Tree Art...Courtesy of Tree and Worms.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 12, 2011 at 8:20pm

WITH A LITLLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS, THE TREES (new small painted envelope)

Comment by yves maraux on December 12, 2011 at 11:00am

where the buffalos  roam

Comment by vizma bruns on December 12, 2011 at 4:35am

Comment by LaVona Sherarts on December 12, 2011 at 3:51am

When I was  about six years old I would climb up into a choke cherry tree. 

My mother would call to find out where I was. I pretended not to hear her.

It was a place for me to be with myself in another world along with birds and bugs. I loved the singing of leaves on a windy day. 

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 12, 2011 at 1:10am

Another splendid book is THE FOREST WITHIN, the world view of the Tukano Amazonian Indians by Gerardo Reichel Dolmatoff (Themis Books, UK)

Comment by Zois on December 12, 2011 at 1:00am

Thank you, Guido.  Ah, trees, beautiful, obvious,  yet sometimes not seen.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 12, 2011 at 12:36am
GAPS


trees no more than stalks
forking black against a snow that
melts before it hits the ground
one of images beyond number
trapped in the largest of those
hollow bottle-shaped dolls

they open one within another
infinities of diminished space
where the stars and planets reel

the Paradise of Miseries is therefore
not unique but merely an interlude
another gap between two voids
where youth is wasted on the young
life is wasted on the living
and the last of the gods lies
drowned in a dark room

ERIC BASSO
December 10, 2011

(final poem of new book in preparation)
Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 12, 2011 at 12:31am

WANTing  MORE TREES BY LAVONA SHERARTS

 

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