Spiral pictures - Spiral photo gallery. INDONESIA NATIONAL BONSAI SHOW 2010. We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature. We’ve lost our connection to ourselves. We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves. External Stimuli : Andy Goldsworthy’s Digital Catalogue Themes : Art Nodes : Andy Goldsworthy, connection, elegance, environmental art, grace, nature, zen.
Living, Growing Architecture[Heavy Graphics Warning] Skip to comments. Living, Growing Architecture[Heavy Graphics Warning] DRB ^ | 02 Sep 2009 | Dylan Thuras Posted on Thu Sep 3 15:40:54 2009 by BGHater Living Architecture: Growing your house, one chair at a time Plants are amazing: they provide food, air, medicine, and material with which we can create buildings, furniture, and art. But through an ancient yet obscure craft, still-living plants can themselves be turned into bridges, tables, ladders, chairs, works of art, and even buildings. Known variously as botanical architecture, tree sculpture, tree-shaping, tree-grafting, pooktre, arborsculpture, and arbortecture, the craft is, at its essence, construction with living plants.
The concept seems to date back to prehistoric times. 1. In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built -- they're grown. (images credit: Vanlal Tochhawng) (image via) (images credit: Marcus Fornell, Jim Ratcliffe) (image via 1, 2) (image credit: Marcus Fornell) 2. 3. 4.