Southern Oregon artist Richard Reames works in an unusual medium: trees. He creates arborsculptures — bending, grafting and pruning trees to form creative shapes, patterns and objects. His artistic ...

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...

Retired forester creates art from Fourth Street trees John Thompson spent his career assessing the health of St. Louis County's trees. The Duluth resident retired from his forestry job with the county ...

At first glace, the yard of Richard Reames looks no different than that of his neighbors. Until one notices the trees. Two saplings swirling around each other. A trunk turned into the shape of a peace ...

Mitchell Newberry has published research on tree branching supported by University of Michigan and University of New Mexico. He volunteers with Cool It Burque, a tree-planting group in Albuquerque, NM ...

Within the leafy confines of Taiyuan's Yingze Park, playful images of raccoons, parrots and squirrels peek out from the ...

Chris DeKnikker’s wood constructions are not what could be called be conceptually complex. Indeed, detractors will no doubt knock them as overly decorative. But it’s hard not to the taken with the ...

INHABITAT: What obstacles did you face in figuring out your design process, and what methods did you try before arriving at Pooktre? POOKTRE: There are many trees in our valley that have taught us ...

When Penobscot basketmaker Jeremy Frey visited the Berkshire Museum this fall, he brought an ash log to turn into fine strips of wood, split along the grain. He would split these into still thinner ...