This trompe l'oeil back-garden uses painted lines to make it appear that the tree is disappearing into a sink-hole:
DEFORMSCAPE (via JWZ)
Deformscape is an outdoor extension to a private dwelling in San Francisco. Situated in a tightly packed urban neighborhood, this limited space outdoor sculpture garden inherits a large tree, and uses this sole arboreal presence to establish a gravitational pattern of grooves that are focused towards the tree's centroid. This asserts the valued presence of the carbon-absorbing tree and its green canopy overhead, while allowing for a maximum of usable surface area below free of other vegetation. To generate the resultant pattern, a 3-dimensional bulge is formed around the tree, and its distorted wire-grid projected onto a 2-dimensional surface. Taking into account appearance effects created by perspective views from inside, the resultant planar surface appears sink around the tree.
Previously:
- Trompe l'oeil ski-toilet mural - Boing Boing
- Trompe-l'œil video projection on building facade - Boing Boing
- Funny trompe l'oeil costumes - Boing Boing
- Porn trompe l'oeil - Boing Boing
- In trompe l'oeil stripper ads, lampposts are strip poles - Boing Boing
- Rooms painted to create 3D trompe l'oeil effects - Boing Boing
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NIMBY! Makes me seasick just to look at it.
This asserts the valued presence of the carbon-absorbing tree and its green canopy overhead, while allowing for a maximum of usable surface area below free of other vegetation.
Sometimes I can't help but be amused by the pompous language of art-project descriptions, especially when it contradicts itself.
Cool, but I wonder how long before the tree outgrows that tiny opening.
Not sure why the original article didn't mention it, but this is actually the back yard of an Apple executive. In his words:
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/apple-execs-backyard-designed-barfing
"Centroid?" Oh Jesus.
"[Geometric] Centroid... The center of mass of a two-dimensional planar lamina or a three-dimensional solid."
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GeometricCentroid.html
Seems about right to me...
Here is a side view: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2766/4117569026_cec9ccf03e_o.jpg
oh, wait - the tree's centroid. I take it back. Clearly they are talking bollocks. Your Oh Jesus stands. My apologies.
"Carbon absorbing tree" just about made me lose my breakfast. So lame. The carbon used in making this project probably exceeds what the tree is going to 'absorb' in its lifetime. Especially since it'll outgrow that hole in about 2-3 years.
Halloween: I was thinking the same thing. It's like this blurb generated by an Art Description Generator (if someone hasn't done it, they should). I like art; I got a degree in visual arts. But the fact that people are expected to, and do, write these stupid overwrought passive-voice paragraphs about their work still amazes me.
Art is not about the paragraph. If you need the paragraph to appreciate it, it's not good. And the paragraph could have been, "we painted lines around the tree because there's this neat effect that happens". Simple. Unfortunately, the overwrought paragraphs are required to get grants.
Ah, but that is the real genius of the design!
By making the hole so small, the designer has forced the user to cut down the tree and sequester the evil wicked carbon it contains every few years.
If you think it looks cool now, just wait until it is covered with dead leaves and sap and bugs and bird poop from the "green canopy overhead".
Well, I guess it depends on the level of "appreciation" you're looking for. I can look at all kinds of artworks and think they look technically well-executed, or pleasing to the eye, or the composition is interesting, etc. That counts as appreciation.
But it doesn't mean I get the whole thing. I count as having "appreciated" a work when I feel like I understand what it means or what intention was behind it. A lot of amazing art, in fact, on the surface seems like another portrait of an aristocrat, another statue of a Greek athlete, and I think, "Cool ... let's move on." That paragraph that gives me some history and context often deepens my appreciation.
I like having some information about most artworks, because ultimately, I can decide whether I accept or reject it. What's the harm?
Doesn't mean I like those overwrought paragraphs either. I think most of them are total bull. But a sincere artist's statement can make a big difference.
Although, of course, it doesn't mean you can't discover a meaning on your own.
Wow --- this is really, really cool!
Based on the post I saw of this yesterday, the lines aren't painted. It's made of individual plywood tiles. See the inset photo here for evidence. http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20091118/flat-out-amazing
That tree isn't going to get much bigger. Japanese Maple just doesn't get very large.
and uses this sole arboreal presence to establish a gravitational pattern of grooves that are focused towards the tree's centroid.
That's almost as pretentious as the twilight movies.
i mean... centroid?
This is why I try not to talk to artists too often. It sometimes ruins their work, for me.
Even the verbal description of the piecemakes me want to barf -- this thing just plain works on so many levels....
Comment from 2k is a tributive encroachment into the arena of self-referencifying discursivity. Encapsulated within the neurological structures of the readers mind this pattern of ephemeral kitsch preposseses the syntactical abridgement of conciousness with a clean and and fresh misunderstanding of the nature of humour. This pounds home the delicate process of literary construction by introducing an action/response cycle from the underlying framework of the readers conciousness whilst precociously assuming fidelity with the ego-structures attempting to critically assert irrational validity of it's own gestalt. Taking into account the total uselessness of describing the described description the resultant feeling of time wasted will dissapear up it's own arse.
"This asserts the valued presence of the carbon-absorbing tree..."
For heaven's sake. I mean honestly.
hmmm too bad the "hole" won't suck rainwater in addition to barf, because this tree isn't going to do very well having the majority of its root system covered by concrete and tile. don't get me wrong, i like fun and interesting art as much as the next young someone, but the stupidity and probable cost of this crap one-liner makes me resent apple's margins even more.