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Anne Frank Tree

Nearly every morning I go to the attic to blow the stuffy air out of my lungs, from my favorite spot on the floor I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the seaguls and other birds as they glide on the wind. As long as this exists, I thought, and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies, while this lasts I cannot be unhappy.
(Anne frank)

A tree as a feeling

After the sudden death of her father, 8-year-old Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn. She’s convinced her father speaks to her through the leaves of her favorite tree and he’s come back to protect them. But the new bond between mother and daughter is threatened when Dawn starts a relationship with George, the plumber, called in to remove the tree’s troublesome roots. As the branches of the tree start to infiltrate the house, the family is forced to make an agonising decision. But have they left it too late?
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A tree can give you so much love and inspiration. It is a feeling that you get when something so big, also can feel so secure. This movie proves that. Kids play in it, but why do they choose a tree? Its because of thee feeling. The feeling about being outside, but also the feeling that nothing can go wrong. When you're in a tree, or just laying agains a tree it can feel so relaxed and free. Everybody will have one moment in there life, and notice that if some tree wasn't there, it will feel much more empty, and not only because it looks nice, but also empty inside.


I have one tree that gives me a special feeling. When i'm in my garden, and look over the water, I see a big tree. First we planted the tree because it will give us a nicer vieuw, and nobody can look right into our garden. But exactly when the tree begins to grow, my grandma dies. So we called the tree like her... Like she has a new life again. When my grandpa dies we tried the same, but the tree would't grow this time. But I think this tree is very special, and it means a lot to me.

A tree with a story

Little Tree

Editorial

Russian beauty (and now a recently designated ambassador of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games) Natalia Vodianova turns her hand at raising awareness for her charity, Naked Heart Foundation, in her cover shoot for February’s UKVogue, shot by Nick Knight.

Products inspired by trees

This beatiful elegant branch bursting with new leaves hangs gracefully from an 18" delicate sparkly 14k gold filled chain. The lovely pendant is matte gold plated brass and measures 35mm x 33mm.

This beautiful bracelet would make a lovely addition to any box of jewels! The focal point of the piece is a large brass leaf stamping (3 1/2") which has been carefully altered to fit the curve of any wrist. 

This garden bracelet features an antiqued brass twig with a matte satin finish. Adorned with an vintage green glass lily blossom and a green glass leaf, the twig stands out beautifully. For the wristband I used shiny glass melons in a beautiful ruby shade to highlight the garden theme even more. 

Products made out of trees.

This is an affordable set of all natural eco friendly fashion earrings. I made them from a limb that fell in my yard. I left the bark on the outside.I don't use any stains or dyes. It is all natural color. These earrings are very lightweight.A perfect gift for a friend or loved one, or a nice little treat for yourself.

The wooden part is 3/4" round x 1/4" thick. I used a clear shellac finish to show off the beauty of the wood, and sanded in between each coat so the finish feels silky smooth.

Beautifully grained wood with fantastic light rays in the wood. The color is just starting to change so it gives you a two tone effect across the grain. The chocolaty chunky bark has been left on and really make this color of the button pop. All four buttons have been given a tung oil finish and buffed with organic beeswax. Quite a nice button.


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Inspiration

Bomen kunnen op veel manieren inspireren. Door de boom zelf als kunstwerk te gebruiken, dit te gebruiken in schilderijen of andere kunstwerken, maar het wordt ook steeds vaker toegepast in de mode.


Alexander Mcqueen is een van deze personen. Zo heeft hij een hele collectie ontworpen waarbij zijn inspiratie simpelweg een boom uit zijn tuin was.


I've got a 600-year-old elm tree in my garden," he said, "and I made up this story of a girl who lives in it and comes out of the darkness to meet a prince and become a queen." After a trip to India, the designer worked like a fiend for months in his studio, with images of Queen Victoria, the Duke of Wellington, and the Indian Empire running through his mind. They were transformed into ballerina-length multi-flounced dance dresses, each more insanely exquisite than the last: A miraculous red-feather-fronted number turned to burst into a froth of creamy frills in back; another came covered in baby-fine knitted lace; a third had a pair of peacocks—again fashioned from cutout black lace—with their tail feathers fanning out over ivory tulle petticoats.
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Tim Knowles

In an ongoing series, Tim Knowles attaches pens to the tips of branches of trees in various settings and allows the chance movement of the wind to dictate a composition. The resulting ‘tree drawings’ resemble spidery tumbleweeds that skitter across the paper, their scratchy lines and abstract blotting parodying the drawings of Jackson Pollock. Like Pollock, Knowles is more interested in process than form; but rather than process servicing the heroic figure of the artist (as it did with Pollock), Knowles uses it to relinquish authorial control, to release drawing from its enslavement to the artist’s hand. Through inventive, often playful techniques that recall the Surrealist experiments of Joan Miro, he introduces arbitrary and aleatory elements into the work’s creation. His intention is to make visible the trajectories of primordial and modern forces, whether the laws of physics at work within a car as it races around the Brands Hatch Circuit, or the path of a full moon’s reflection on unstill water.

(Source: http://magazine.saatchionline.com/)

My Own Work

Consisting of 17 vibrant hornbeam trees formally planted in a grid pattern, at the heart of this landscape three trees will slowly rotate. In place of the familiar movement of shade according to the rotation of the earth around the sun, here shade migrates at an artificial speed, transforming the familiar patterns of the natural world into artificial creations.

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Katie Holten

Katie Holten

As art

A weeping cherry that had its roots accidentally but fatally damaged by construction workers, the leafless, luxuriantly branching tree, cut just above the roots, now stands on a flat base and rises 50 feet into the clerestory skylight that runs the length of the hall. Cables anchored to the gallery's brick walls hold the tree in place, and with a bit of study you can see how it was maneuvered indoors: the tree was carefully cut up with chainsaws and then reassembled, with heavy-duty bolts securing the V-shaped joints.

The sculpture is titled "One Art" after a poem about loss by Elizabeth Bishop, but its effects are multiple. First, there is the sheer physical presence. If you passed it in an ordinary outdoor space like Central Park, you would not give it a second glance; it is not an especially beautiful or remarkably big tree. But in a type of indoor setting where you rarely if ever encounter trees of this sort, it seems huge and infinitely complex. With its crusty bark; gnarly, serpentine limbs and profuse finer branches; and its presumably enormous weight, it gives you a feeling similar to that of being up close to an elephant or a whale.

Year Rings

Every year a tree gets thicker. In the spring a tree grows the most. During the summer the growing process will slow down. In the summer the tree will have a thick structure and it looks much darker. Because of the tree will go darker, the growing rings will show a lot better. The ring patron is different at every tree. You can count those rings and it will tell the age of the tree. Because of the grow of the cells there will added one ring a year. The shape of the ring will tell how fast the tree has grown, this depends on the temperature and rain.

A tree is a community

A tree is really caring. A tree can be older than 1000 years, and there even exist a tree who is 3500 year. It's amazing how a tree can survive for so long. The weather changes, and they will be cut off, but without this tree so many animals and insects wouldn't had a nice time on earth.

A tree is a community. So many animals and insects wouldn't survive without trees. It's a place were they can find their food, but also a place they can live.
Birds is one of the animals who lives of the branches. Their whole house is made by pieces of little branches and they could also find some food in the tree.

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Because of the cold weather, the branches are so naked, and it  shows the incredible shapes and different kinds of ways a tree can look. I want to show many inspiration pictures and information how a branch shapes him self and how this give character to the tree.

Above ground, branches will be in competition with other plants fighting for sunlight. Their main goal is reach as high as they can, it’s a competition, and they al want to be the best.
In images this can expose itself to a very interesting composition. It shows the long way a branch has to go, until it becomes so high, large and big.


Sometimes this kind of images can be a big mess, because some kind of trees has a hundred of branches. But there are so many different kinds, that it will interest you every time, over and over again.