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Tree of Life
This wind activated kinetic sculpture is made from carbon fibre, glass fibre (fibre glass?) high temperature epoxy and stainless steel.
Small, slow growing, evergreen tree. Bark - grey bark with patches of green.
Leaves - compound, 2.5 to 3 cm in length, and 2 cm wide and have a red dot at the base of the stalk of the leaf.
Flowers - In April to May. 2.5 cm across, with 5 bluish purple petals fading to white.
Fruits - yellow-orange with red flesh and black seeds.
The wood is valued for its density and high resin content. The timber is considered to be one of the densest and heaviest of all timbers and exceptionally durable. Its timber does not rot and is therefore used in the manufacture of boat propellers. Lignum vitae now faces danger of extinction in the world due to its extraction for its precious wood.
"Lignum vitae" is Latin for "tree of life", and derives its name from its medicinal uses.
Lignum vitae resin has been used to treat a variety of medical ailments. The gum when mixed with Hydrogen Peroxide imparts a blue colour of its flowers to blood stains, a fact which helps forensic scientists detect almost invisible traces of blood.
All species of the genus Guaiacum are now listed in Appendix II of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) as potentially endangered species.
LiveProjectionMapping at TreeOfLife Festival/kautzen 2016.
Projections Vijay Sikanda
Object by leuchtkraft
#seedcamp #videomapping #projectionmapping#vj #visuals #videomapping #projectionmapping #3dmapping
#videoart #eventdesign — mit Mariachis de las fiestas locas.
Artist: David Rosen
Object Type: Stained Glass
Address: 1031 Crescent Heights
Year installed: 1988
Photos provided courtesy of the City of West Hollywood. Some rights reserved.
Terri, my neighbor, made this with one of my pendants. I just love how her design compliments the pendant
I had to make it a point to have to in my opinion also and so well as I was saying, we, as humans, us, the idea is well yes you know--don't you?
Carved in the Chapel of St Michel over the narthex, in the beautiful Romanesque church of St Philibert in Burgundy
Photo: Ming Nomchong
Muse: Holly Brown
Hmu: Amanda Reardon
Creative Director: Abigael Whittaker
Creative Assist: Ashleigh Evans
Photo Assist: Jeremy Gryst & Maxwell Finch
Campaign Film: Dom Sullivan.
O peso da vida!
Gostava de senti-lo à tua maneira
e ouvi-la crescer dentro de mim,
em carne viva,
não queria somente
rasgar-te a ferida,
não queria apenas esta vocação paciente
do lavrador,
mas, também, a da terra
e que é a tua
Assume o amor como um ofício
onde tens que te esmerar,
repete-o até à perfeição,
repete-o quantas vezes for preciso
até dentro dele tudo durar
e ter sentido
Deixa nele crescer o sol
até tarde,
deixa-o ser a asa da imaginação,
a casa da concórdia,
só nunca deixes que sobre
para não ser memória.
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The Burden of Life
by Eduardo White
The burden of life!
I loved bearing it, just like you,
hearing it grow inside me,
in living flesh.
I didn't only want
to open your wound,
I didn't only want
the patient vocation of a labourer:
I wanted the earth's vocation too,
which also is yours.
Treat love like a profession,
to be practised with great care.
Repeat to perfection
as often as necessary,
until it lasts
and everything inside
is in the right place.
Let the sun rise into the night.
Never let love become a leftover, a memory.
Tree of life!
Day 23 of #30dayphotochallenge
These were shot at the same date, different times of the day and different angles. Such a photogenic tree! The question is, how are they maintaining it to look this good? Fantastic job, owners!
Shot on #Canon R5 + RF 100-500 (day) and RF 28-70 f/2 (night)
#shotoncanon #canoncanada #landscape #markham #torontophotographer #nightphotography #nightlandscape #tree #treeoflife #sharecangeo #yourshotphotographer
63" x 73" acrylic on pine painting. Local non-profit commissioned and will use as a donor tree. They have beautiful gold, silver and bronze metal leaves engraved with donor names. Those will be added within the leaves.
To the Maya, the ceiba tree is sacred. The tree joins the heavens to the terrestrial earth through its roots to the underworld, the trunk on the ground, and the branches that reach out to the sky. Considered the “tree of life," the ceiba is thought to stand at the center of the Earth. Modern Maya often leave the tree alone out of respect when harvesting forest wood. Plants played a significant role in the ecology, culture and rituals of the Maya people, whose artwork reflects the sacred and diverse plant life around them. Ancient Maya art depicts the ceiba tree. "The Maya have lived and used rainforest plants to heal themselves for thousands of years. We are just beginning to understand some of their secrets," according to archaeologist Charles Zidar of Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis, US. The ceiba is the national tree of Guatemala. news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8083000/8083812...