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kottke.org posts about Giuseppe Penone

It Will Continue to Grow Except at That Point

"What if you held a tree long enough for it to grow around your hand?" For a piece called It Will Continue to Grow Except at That Point, Giuseppe Penone fitted a cast of his hand to a growing tree and the tree grew around it for more than a decade.

Penone has been featured on KDO once before β€” for his sculptures of trees where he carves away tens or even hundreds of years from massive trees to reveal their inner saplings.

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Self-Portrait of a Tree As a Young Sapling

This is Cedro di Versailles, a sculpture by Giuseppe Penone, carved out of a five-ton cedar log from Versailles.

To create the piece, Penone removed the outer rings of the tree to reveal the younger tree within. (via β˜…spavis)