Tree Sculptures

Wow, Axel Erlandson is a genius. He dabbles in arbosculture so that would make him an arbosculturalist…? Anyway, it’s something similar to Bonsai in that where Bonsai has dwarfed trees, arbosculpture has trees looking like (doh) sculptures.

So the self-taught Axel Erlandson sculptured some 70 trees to make for Tree Circus, theme park of his lovely works of art. Then life took over in the form of bad health so he had to sell the Tree Circus. Some were neglected, some were—whatever, the point is, life continued to take over for the new owners until only 20 tree sculptures were saved. They were then preserved in another theme park, this time in California.

They’re awesome, see:

(photos from staro-novo)

Can’t say I’m a a solid tree-hugger but I am quite concerned with the state of environmental affairs. I don’t know how all this arbosculture fits in the green of things but maybe if all of us gave a fraction of Axel’s TLC to trees and plants and our environment, maybe the world wouldn’t be as sick as it is today.

I mean, I was just telling you how cruel it’s been in my part of the world for the past three months and what do you know, it’s suddenly overcast today. Boo, because I was warming up to hell already, preparing for a beach trip this weekend. Alas, alas.