The Tree As a Beautiful Machine

Here is a wonderful feature article in DeviantArt by $techgnotic


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there were a part there where there are questions intended for the readers


For the Reader

1As an artist, writer or photographer, do you think of trees as mostly background or backdrop to your art? Or have you actually used trees as a central subject?

2What’s your favorite work of fiction or movie that really made use of the forest as an actual “character” in the story?

3Do you find “subject-less” landscape photography or paintings generally boring or often compelling? Or does it all depend on the artist’s lens or brush?

4Can you remember a specific tree that played an important part in your own life? Or maybe that still does?

5Is a backyard without at least one tree really a “backyard” (i.e., a theater of childhood dreams of adventure) or just a soulless kid & pet pen?

here are my answers to the wonderful article that i wanted to share to you


1. as an artist, i seldom use trees as my subject, but when i do, they are in a form of landscape, so its a scenery-more-type pf painting..


2. i couldnt remember all of them and which scenes, but i remember that part of avatar the movie, it was mystical.. i also remember The Last Avatar (cartoons) the movie where there's a huge tree from underground... cant seem to remember everything in it..


3. in that "subject-less" case, it depends on the color and contrast of hues, and also the techniques being used in the work piece..


4. there are a lot of trees that made a part of my life that even my childhood days cant erase it from me.. one was a Tambis tree (i dont know if there's an english name for that) that is located at the yard of our neighbor where me and my cousins usually sneak in and climb that tree to get its fruit and eat it with salt. thats so fun and yummy! we had an old Talisay tree back in our old house where i used to live and where i grew up in front of our house. i witnessed it from the time it was planted until it became a whole shed in our front yard that served as our patio. it has big flat leaves that is very hard to sweep. OMG there are a lot to mention, but here's the last, that one big Nim Tree in our school in front of our room where we sweep the leaves everyday during cleaning time in school. it sheds super small leaves. unfortunately, they had to cut down that tree because another classroom was built in that place. i felt sad about it, and it was the time that i graduated senior high...


5. im really not used to not seeing trees everywhere even in the front yard. but it depends where you live, whether you are in country, in downtown, in city..

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree...

                                 by Alfred Joyce Kilmer