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Wednesday Art Inspiration: The Tree Circus

If you know me, you know I love trees.





So imagine the delight that filled my soul when I happened upon the tree circus this morning.


Apparently this guy, Axel Erlandson, perfected the art of shaping trees. He was an arborsculptor who lived from 1884-1964, and he opened a horticultural attraction in 1947 featuring his unique trees. This very attraction was "The Tree Circus."



He would first create designs on paper, and then he would make the tree by planting in specified patterns, and then bending, grafting and pruning it.

When children asked how he got his trees to grow like that, he would reply, "I talk to them."

I found this gem of information at Arborsmith Studios, where Robert Reams has dedicated his life to bringing back the art form arborsculpture. I love his peace trees.


You can read more at his blog, which I will surely be following.

This is probably the best thing I have discovered in quite some time.

on 11/19/2008

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love after love

The time will come when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say
sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger
who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread.
Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life...

Take down the love
letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs,
the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit.
Feast on your life.

~Derek Walcott

bring it on back

and i am telling you..

i'm karlee. i have a husband and a daughter. (well ok, she's a puppy.) this is the world through my eyes.

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