{"id":3071,"date":"2009-11-07T06:31:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T06:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2009-11-07T06:31:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T06:31:54","slug":"when-is-a-tree-not-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/when-is-a-tree-not-a-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"When is a tree not a tree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/wrapped-trees.bmp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/wrapped-trees.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3070\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/wrapped-trees.bmp\" alt=\"wrapped-trees\" width=\"791\" height=\"538\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the best way to see something &#8211; is to see it differently. Thanks to Christo and his project\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christojeanneclaude.net\/wt.shtml\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Wrapped Trees, Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen, Switzerland<span class=\"style25\"> 1997-98<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0the humble tree can be seen more clearly as part of the three dimensional compositon of space. The exaggerated sense of presence wrapping the tree affords gives a greater sense of volume, solid and void and perspective to the overall scene.<\/p>\n<p>And this is an art work that the viewer inhabits, experiences first hand and interacts with as the hours of the day colour it slightly differently. Time to reflect on our place in the world &#8230; [ <a href=\"http:\/\/rainfromthesky.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/trees-were-sculpture-without-their.html\">http:\/\/rainfromthesky.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/trees-were-sculpture-without-their.html<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the best way to see something &#8211; is to see it differently. Thanks to Christo and his project\u00a0Wrapped Trees, Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen, Switzerland 1997-98\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the humble tree can be seen more clearly as part of the three dimensional compositon of space. The exaggerated sense of presence wrapping the tree affords gives a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[229,232,235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}