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Contrary1

(12,629 posts) Wed Dec 2, 2015, 03:51 PM Dec 2015

Check out how this man transforms a dead tree

I must admit, I am jealous of someone with so much talent.

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Check out how this man transforms a dead tree (Original Post) Contrary1 Dec 2015 OP

It's dead now. Darb Dec 2015 #1

Or it could have been dying from an incurable disease. kentauros Dec 2015 #4

I had not seen these though I live 2 hours away. I will go soon when we go to Dickens on the Strand Dustlawyer Dec 2015 #7

I wish I'd known about them, too, when my GF was visiting last spring. kentauros Dec 2015 #8

It was a tree. Buzz Clik Dec 2015 #16

I am in awe of someone with so much talent and vision. nt Fla Dem Dec 2015 #2

That is COOL! elias49 Dec 2015 #3

Wow! This first-grade-art-flunkout is deeply impressed! lastlib Dec 2015 #5

Awesome! sinkingfeeling Dec 2015 #6

KNR...wow! Hepburn Dec 2015 #9

On the Gulf Coast there are many of these, from Katrina. nolabear Dec 2015 #10

That really is amazing passiveporcupine Dec 2015 #11

Almost like a totem. Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2015 #12

Such talent. Scarsdale Dec 2015 #13

That man is a gift to humanity! Love that~ nt MADem Dec 2015 #14

Wow, what talent and patience! An artist. CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2015 #15

beautiful Menshunables Dec 2015 #17

Darb

(2,807 posts)

1. It's dead now.

Reply to Contrary1 (Original post)

Wed Dec 2, 2015, 04:25 PM

Dec 2015

I think it was alive before, just trimmed down to a trunk. Nice sculpture though. Might still sprout some new growth out of the bottom where there is still a ring of bark.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)

4. Or it could have been dying from an incurable disease.

Reply to Darb (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 2, 2015, 11:02 PM

Dec 2015

Sometimes you can't save them, no matter what you do.

There's a bunch of tree-sculptures in Galveston now because artists there turned many of the trees that had been killed by standing saltwater after Hurricane Ike. Lots of talent out there for that kind of thing

It makes me wonder if anyone did this after Hurricane Sandy...

Dustlawyer

(10,497 posts)

7. I had not seen these though I live 2 hours away. I will go soon when we go to Dickens on the Strand

Reply to kentauros (Reply #4)

Thu Dec 3, 2015, 07:46 PM

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kentauros

(29,414 posts)

8. I wish I'd known about them, too, when my GF was visiting last spring.

Reply to Dustlawyer (Reply #7)

Thu Dec 3, 2015, 07:49 PM

Dec 2015

I'd certainly have taken that tour

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)

16. It was a tree.

Reply to Darb (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 8, 2015, 10:13 AM

Dec 2015

Fla Dem

(23,723 posts)

2. I am in awe of someone with so much talent and vision. nt

Reply to Contrary1 (Original post)

Wed Dec 2, 2015, 06:51 PM

Dec 2015

elias49

(4,259 posts)

3. That is COOL!

Reply to Contrary1 (Original post)

Wed Dec 2, 2015, 10:03 PM

Dec 2015

lastlib

(23,266 posts)

5. Wow! This first-grade-art-flunkout is deeply impressed!

Reply to Contrary1 (Original post)

Wed Dec 2, 2015, 11:09 PM

Dec 2015

to the sculptor!

sinkingfeeling

(51,469 posts)

6. Awesome!

Reply to Contrary1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 3, 2015, 06:31 PM

Dec 2015

Hepburn

(21,054 posts)

9. KNR...wow!

Reply to Contrary1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 3, 2015, 10:14 PM

Dec 2015

I love it! Thank you for the video.

nolabear

(41,990 posts)

10. On the Gulf Coast there are many of these, from Katrina.

Reply to Contrary1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 3, 2015, 11:12 PM

Dec 2015

We love those live oaks, but some just couldn't survive all that wind and salt water. An artist made them into leaping Dolphins, sea birds, a beautiful memorial.