Spirits of the Tree

[avad]

Took another beautiful walk today- this time with a specific destination in mind-to visit a big strange (2
faced/headed) tree I had seen before...



to photograph and sketch it and pay
homage. In India, growth forms like that would be revered as signs of a
goddess/gods... whole villages making shrines around them, painting them,
adorning them with flowers, making puja offerings, etc. I find that SO
beautiful/moving somehow. I really wanted rub oil on the 'faces', (like I've
seen in one of my favorite photo books-BEAUTIFUL flash website here: Meeting God:Elements of Hindu Devotion), and I even brought some fragrant lavender/sandalwood oil with me...but there was too much
bark and lichen attached so I didn't. Photographed and sketched it instead. It was the only way I
could avoid looking toooooo odd staring and Being with this tree for so
long as people and cars went by.;)

Comments

FARMS!?!

[captainbigwig.livejournal.com]

I think there is still one house with the face stump, and another who just debarked his for sheer fun.

Are the synthetic resins really noxtious? I know the mixes are quite expensive for 1/2 gallon :(

The empathy box are all those bumps hammered down nails? And the drops of dew on the wire is that resin also?

I'm a similar relocator, born in brooklyn and moved out to lindenhurst. I moved to brooklyn after college for 6 months and returned here because the air and odor is just fresher and easier to breath.

Oh I'll definitle visit and try my attempt to see montauk too :)

Re: FARMS!?!

[avad.livejournal.com]

hehe. yup, we've got lotsa farms!:) B even worked on one for a while. Vineyards too and just some nice open fields, especially around Bridgehampton.

yeah, resin is pretty toxic.:( that's why I only like to work with it when I can practically be outdoors (garage door wide open). I have a special respirator too, though i need new filters and could use a new one. I used to use 'Liquid Glass' which I loved...but over time, exposure to UV rays makes it yellow so I eventually had to upgrade to an even more expensive stuff:(- it's called Crystal Clear 2000 and I get it from The Compleat Sculptor in NYC. Do you work with resin?

Let's see...empathy box- yep, those are hammered down nails amongst sand texture...and the connected points are upright nails with resin on the heads....and yep,the drops on the monofilament are resin.:)

Re: FARMS!?!

[captainbigwig.livejournal.com]

the north fork has alot of vineyards, but I didn't see any farms on the way to the orient point ferry. We use to have tons of farms in the melville and farmingdale area, but they all sold out to TOWN House developments.

I use to be a closet custom action figure builders, where you would talke broken figures and parts and rebuild and repaint them. Some guys I knew were good with castings in plastics. Though they offset the cost for the materials buy casting replacement parts.

Strangely I've found myself drawn back to plastics in the forms of LEGOS. no not more plastic in brick form!