It usually takes just a shift of orientation, or your usual route to work or the store, to work some living trees into your day and heart. Here’s some inspiration from Yoko Ono and Max Lamb…
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craftily painted tree trunk furniture
Just as we were finishing our post about LED illuminating tree trunks, we found this image of a thick tree trunk side table/stool where vivid red paint was used to draw attention to the split in the wood. It was also stenciled. More possibilities from the tree trunk logs we hauled home after Hurricane…
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tree-vision: tree roots emerge from the ceiling
Our love of trees has led us to imagine many ways to use fallen trunks and limbs indoors. But we NEVER thought of this!
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Foraging Fallen Trees for DIY’s
Not long after I dragged the tree sculpture home, I went back into the park to see what was happening with the huge, ancient 3-foot-in-diameter oak that Hurricane Sandy brought down. The parks people had been cutting it up — terrible to see. They just sawed it apart into chunks to chip; think of the…
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