Video: The photographer managed to capture the tree spirits
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The hills have eyes, the walls have ears, and the stumps and tree trunks have an Italian photographer Elido Turco discovered the most real faces. The author's rich imagination, dozens of photographs from a forest walk and the technique of mirror reflection - and now "Forest Spirits" are watching us from behind every tree in forests, parks and squares.
As you know, the patterns of bark on trees are unique, and you cannot find two identical trees, just as there are no two similar stumps, snags and tree cuts. The Italian photographer takes hundreds of pictures of the trees and stumps he likes, and then carefully sorts them out, setting aside the most interesting angles for his art project. A couple of mouse clicks, and the selected pictures turn into devils and goblins, gnomes and brownies, outlandish animals, insects and other fabulous creatures of the magical world.
As you know, in ancient times, people believed that every living creature has its own patron deity, who needs to pray and bring gifts in order to get permission to pick fruits from trees and bushes, shoot game or catch fish. Perhaps it was precisely such drawings of the bark of trees, the intricacies of twigs and branches, the outlines of a hollow in one trunk or another that led them to such thoughts. Elido Turco's art project is called "Dream Creatures", and the author calls his outlandish creations "forest spirits" or "tree spirits".
In the Forest Spirits of Elido Turco, fans of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy will surely recognize the Ents, representatives of one of the most ancient peoples of Middle-earth. Who knows, maybe the Italian photographer is as passionate about the wonderful saga as the author hobbit style houses, which we already wrote about on Cultural Studies.
And while Elido Turco observes the "tree spirits" in nature, other artists weave amazing sculptures from the trunks that continue to grow like ordinary trees. These "sculptors" call their hobby Tree shaping, arborsculpture, or, if you translate it into Russian, tree modeling.
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