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19 Apr 2012, 1:28 am

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19 Apr 2012, 1:35 pm

Oh s**t... maybe there's something to that 2012 nonsense.

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19 Apr 2012, 5:59 pm

keira wrote:

^^^I hope not.

Mighty pretty.

What species?

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19 Apr 2012, 9:41 pm

Just wow.

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19 Apr 2012, 9:47 pm

what the hell is this insanity?

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20 Apr 2012, 12:20 am

I keep turning to MS Paint in my boredom.

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20 Apr 2012, 12:40 am

Mdyar wrote:

keira wrote:

^^^I hope not.

Mighty pretty.

What species?

Blue?

Quote:

Australian artist Konstantin Dimopoulos uses environmentally safe pigments to paint the trunks and limbs of trees in urban areas to help raise awareness of the nearly 32 million acres of forests lost each year around the world.

That's all I know about the picture and the tree.

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20 Apr 2012, 5:35 am

Mdyar wrote:

keira wrote:

^^^I hope not.

Mighty pretty.

What species?

It looks like a maple tree. Probably Acer rubrum, the red maple. I think the color of the leafs is original, only the tree bark appears to have been photoshopped. The leaf shape would also fit (see below).

Edited to add: Acer saccharum, the sugar maple, has similarly shaped leafs that can also turn red in the autumn.

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20 Apr 2012, 6:08 am

It wasn't photoshopped, it was painted.

http://www.kondimopoulos.com/blue-trees/about/

Konstantin Dimopoulos wrote:

The Blue Trees is a social art action. Through colour I am making a personal statement about the spirituality of trees and their importance to our very survival: trees are the lungs of the planet.
Colour is a powerful stimulant, a means of altering perception and defining space and time. The fact that blue is a colour that is not naturally identified with trees suggests to the viewer that something unusual, something out of the ordinary has happened. It becomes a magical transformation.
In nature colour is used both as a defensive mechanism, a means of protection, and as a mechanism to attract. The Blue Trees attempts to waken a similar response from viewers. It is within this context that the blue denotes sacredness, something reverential.
Trees are largely invisible in our daily lives, and it’s not until it’s too late that we realise how important they are to us both aesthetically and environmentally. Each year an area at least the size of Belgium of native forests is cleared from around the planet.
Yet while we do this we look at whether other planets can be inhabited, so we’ve got somewhere else to go once we’ve destroyed our own.
The colour used on the trees is biologically safe pigmented water. As an ephemeral artwork, the colour will naturally degrade and the trees gradually revert to their natural state.

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20 Apr 2012, 6:17 am

keira wrote:

It wasn't photoshopped, it was painted.

http://www.kondimopoulos.com/blue-trees/about/

Ah, so the art installations consist of actual trees that have been painted blue

Interesting.

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