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What in the world is this? It’s an heirloom carrot called Turkish Black. Bizarre and beautiful, yes?
The Patient Gardener
A 100 year plan to grow a circle of 10 Japanese cherry trees into an hourglass shaped structure to be used as a study retreat. Trees can be shaped, sculpted, trained to grow into specific shapes, and even grafted together into a lattice, but this concept takes things to the next level.
The project is being grown on the Politecnico di Milano campus, and is designed by a group of Swedish architects called Visiondivision. The plan is to shape the trees as they grow, tying them to create a central scaffold to give an upper level, then growing the branches out to form “walls.” They even intend to weave two of the trees together to form a staircase.
The concept is similar to the living root bridges found in Meghalaya, Sumatra, and Java, where the aerial roots of certain tree species are sculpted into usable structures.
Vever Frères, Mistletoe. Comb 1899 / 1900.
Horn, gold, mother of pearl, enamel, bronzed metal.
Exhibited at the World Fair 1900 in Paris. Now in the collection of the Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe, Hamburg.
hiraeth
(hɨraɪ̯θ), noun | A Welsh, untranslatable feeling, hiraeth is loosely described as a homesickness for a home you cannot return to anymore or a place, which never even existed. Connotations of sadness, yearning, profound nostalgia, and wistfulness are imbued into the state of hiraeth. Overall this beautiful, but painful longing is a an expression of an empty desire and grief over a past life or place. It is the ultimate signifier of a bond, which has ceased to exist.
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Ardwynna's Place 
