Trapped Nature - Really cool art installation

davey_wonder · 1 year

This is part of Naoko Ito's exhibition called Urban Nature

I saw it in Raleigh, NC at the Contemporary Art Museum, and actually met her at the grand opening. The whole collection is really cool.

The CAM page on her exhibition

bearfight · 1 year

I placed a jar in Tennessee,

And round it was, upon a hill.

It made the slovenly wilderness

Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it,

And sprawled around, no longer wild.

The jar was round upon the ground

And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion every where.

The jar was gray and bare.

It did not give of bird or bush,

Like nothing else in Tennessee.

shablamoid · 1 year

I can't be the only person who really wants to knock this over.

ProbablyHittingOnYou · 1 year

This is the kind of thing I love seeing in /r/pics

MyNameCouldntBeAsLon · 1 year

"Took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum/And charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em"

lostrock · 1 year

That branch is ajar.

ProgFan · 1 year

Anybody have a higher resolution image? I'd love to put this as my background.

fingapapits · 1 year

my kingdom for a higher resolution!

devidual · 1 year

I was going to ask if this person was Korean. Those jars are standard issue for kimchi storage.

farting_rhino · 1 year

Saw this in Raleigh a few months ago, it was impressive.

Immynimmy · 1 year

I don't know why, but when I clicked the link, the image was scrolled all the way down and the first thing I saw was the jar all the way on the bottom: I automatically thought it was a jar of poop.

somethingnottaken · 1 year

This is how I prefer my nature.

nollidge · 1 year

Anybody know how this was done? Are there holes in the sides/bottoms of the jars, or is the branch cut up and the pieces glued in place inside the jars?

gngf123 · 1 year

Anyone else think of the horse slicing scene from The Cell?

Snowslydder · 1 year

This is what a boner feels like in under armour underwear!

DerpLogic · 1 year

I don't know what to think. I'm very jarred by this picture.

Identity_disorder · 1 year

Really nice, wasn't sure at first if the tree was behind the jars then i realised. THIS IS GOOD STUFF!

freedomgeek · 1 year

This better not have a message of "Science is ruining nature by categorizing it and stuff, man."

rumnscurvy · 1 year

Damien Hirst did it first. Still well cool though

CirclejerkElemental · 1 year

We're all trapped - under the republican Zionist rule.

-Kool-Aid Man

Lcar210 · 1 year

This would be a fantastic wallpaper. Too bad it isn't a higher resolution.

IAMA_monkey · 1 year

I don't often love art. But when I do, it's about nature and us humans ruining it.

solancer · 1 year

very cool

crystalbluecurrents · 1 year

That's really cool

mehatch · 1 year

The floura is ajar.

StormtrooperDan · 1 year

What a monster!!! The artist is a psychopath.

hobbit6 · 1 year

If Dexter were an arborist.

Cluwne · 1 year

That's actually Really cool.

bonzamate · 1 year

Amazing image ...

dkat · 1 year

Does anyone have the strange feeling that they've seen this before? Like in a school book perhaps?

radar77008 · 1 year

I wouldn't say it's "really cool."

[deleted] · 1 year

Don't let Link in there he'll smash them all.

invertedspear · 1 year

Original submission: http://www.reddit.com/r/nature/comments/k6tw1/amazingly_done_trapped_nature_photo/

kissmekatie · 1 year

That's amazing!

YUGAY_AGAIN · 1 year

That creeps me out!

paradoxofchoice · 1 year

Thank you reddit, I appreciate your art appreciation and not just funny pictures or memes.

TorturedSoulPoet · 1 year

Trapped in nature

the only true form of life

lifting her head gently

clasping a pure glance into divinity

we hear the bird song softly

as new energies penetrate the forest below.

this is an ever changing world

and i am trapped forever.

Installing little else beyond my being.

I bow my head and accept my fate.

tribe84 · 1 year

Cool, yes. Art, meh.

Art as a collective word bums me the fuck out since I believe skill and execution is inseparable from art. I love looking at a piece of art and wondering things like "I wonder how long that guy took to paint that", or "I wonder what materials was used" or "did he actually see something or did he paint from memory". I know that what I am seeing here is art, but it kind of spoils it when I can say "Look, someone took pieces of a branch and jammed it into jars".

iope · 1 year

Yeah, I was at the super primo pre-opening exhibition. There were also some coat hangers and a piece of cardboard and some plastic bags and a poorly-plugged-in fluorescent light. Oh, and some people dressed like carnival somethings. Pretty darn arty.

NitsuaDneirf · 1 year

candles in the empties. someone shoop this, or do this!

cygnusb · 1 year

big green fruit = Osage Orange

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera

lost2012 · 1 year

This reminds me a ring I've seen that was wood bound with metal. The explanation was that love is something organic, and marriage is an unnatural societal restraint that tries to contain love. The couple wore this because while they were in love, they would not have gotten married when they did if it wasn't for the need to be technically married in order to be together when they joined Green Peace. Here's a picture of what I'm talking about: http://www.wheretogetengaged.com/rules-of-engagement/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/woodinlayring.jpg

PartyBusGaming · 1 year

this kills the tree

iheartrms · 1 year

They should do this with a cat. That would be awesome. Reminds me of "bonsai kitty".

DadsArmy · 1 year

I know this will be an unpopular comment but I am starting to dislike things like this, where you are sort of lead to think "ahhh, that's clever". In my mind I can just see the artist standing next to me smugly saying, "yup, see what I did there".

Don't get me wrong, it's nice and everything but I guess I am just fatigued by all the, well, cleverness in modern art.

I think I am getting old, I am more often moved by an oil painting or abstract art these days. Art like this is simply just clever and well executed, but at the same time it is obvious and therefore a little empty.

Anyways, those are my thoughts - unpopular as they may be. </rant>

Edit I actually looked at her website and there are indeed some very nice more abstract things on there. I am not having a go at this particular artist in any way, just observations based on this piece.

pootangmaster · 1 year

awesome. im going to do it with a child :o)

TheAtomicPlayboy · 1 year

Ships in bottles are for bitches.

philosyche · 1 year

Woah... That is one of the coolest things i saw today, surely gonna try it out!

[deleted] · 1 year

Some people have wayy too much free time

ObeseSnake · 1 year

So this is someone who cut up a tree branch and placed the pieces in glass bottles and arranged then back into how the branch grew on the tree in the wild?

reifier · 1 year

Why does everyone keep using the word installation, isn't it just art? Why

marburg · 1 year

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kneeofwisdom · 1 year

A security guard approaches.

"NO CAMERAS!"

The security guard has taken your camera.

stoprepostingthis · 1 year

Stop Reposting This.

gfail · 1 year

Now that is the type of art piece I'd actually buy (if I ever had the money).

claimjumper · 1 year

Nice.

ip_g_chodder · 1 year

This needs Chevelle - Jars in the background.

dudebro_fistbump · 1 year

I remember when art used to require imagination and talent.

vibrio · 1 year

In the back of art magazines you can send a photo to a company and very lightly they transfer the photo on canvass just enough to see the photo and colors values... almost like a paint by number set then they send it to you and tell you what a talented artist you will become using this technique... it works but really does not take talent.

vuxanov · 1 year

Reddit = StumbleUpon 8 months old

vibrio · 1 year

Maybe Reddit should change its name to Sheeple.... take a look at what the average American hangs on the wall..... I guess to most Americans this is garbage is amazing...... I bet you people cant wait to be able to buy cheap "reproductions" of this photo underlay copy art with plastic frames at K mart.

shpong1ed · 1 year

Hm... I'm usually a fan of pics, cool pics, nature pics... but this... was really worthless.

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