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: 233
Latest Activity: on Tuesday

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 10, 2011 at 11:52pm: 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

Comment by prettylily on December 10, 2011 at 11:34pm: Fabulous photos. All of them! Guido, I really like how you describe the group. All of that hugging........so true!

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 10, 2011 at 11:33pm: 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)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 10, 2011 at 11:31pm: IN THE MAGIC FOREST, another photo from my own garden in Brussels, the first tree is a tree of pears, fish sticker appears again. Mailed to Snappy in Canada.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 10, 2011 at 11:27pm: EQC, contribution to daily ecologics project proposed by Rosa Gravino, photo, stickers, some rubbed letters and a peace stamp

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 10, 2011 at 11:23pm: ASEMIC SIGNS OF A MALTESE TREE (painting realized while in Malta)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 10, 2011 at 10:25pm: Tree next to Aln River, England

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lavonasherarts

Comment by Judy Skolnick on December 10, 2011 at 10:15pm

Comment by Judy Skolnick on December 10, 2011 at 10:14pm: The silver tree sculpture below and if i can the US Christmas tree above

Comment by Louise Kiner on December 10, 2011 at 10:14pm: I took these during a fall walk.

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