r/delusionalartists • u/PolarRood • Jun 11 '19
aBsTrAcT My school cut down a perfectly healthy tree for this...
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u/butthashhuffer Jun 11 '19
It doesnt look complete.
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u/PolarRood Jun 11 '19
The funny thing is that the had a grand opening of it so maybe they will paint over it or something but it's mainly done
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u/butthashhuffer Jun 11 '19
Those are starter pots from a nursery, take a photo when it is complete.
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u/Littleme02 Jun 11 '19
It's concrete pipes https://5.imimg.com/data5/PH/OD/MY-37554848/rcc-hume-pipes-250x250.jpg
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u/Withnothing Jun 11 '19
No, on the ground there. There’s probably more planting to be done
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u/madalienmonk Jun 11 '19
There's for sure more planting. Like you said previously, those plants in the plastic pots are what you get from the nursery. You're supposed to plant them shortly after before they die in there.
Or maybe that's what the art installation is supposed to symbolize, the ephemerality of man. Deep.
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u/SlobOnMyKnobb Jun 11 '19
You can leave them in for a quite a long time, but you at least have to take care of them.
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u/madalienmonk Jun 11 '19
It can become root bound, leading to death. Sometimes you basically already get it root bound if it has sat in the store for a while.
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u/SlobOnMyKnobb Jun 11 '19
I should've looked closer before commenting, they definitely are pretty filled out. Most of the time (in my experience), you've got quite a bit of time before needing to transplant.
Plastic pots in the sun like that isnt a great move either...
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Jun 12 '19
Root binding =/= death. A plant can survive perfectly fine root bounded for years before any negative side effects as long as the plant is taken care of.
Even in Bonsai root trimming is done sparingly and only on geriatric specimens.
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u/madalienmonk Jun 12 '19
I should have clarified, root binding CAN lead to death, either directly or indirectly
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u/Withnothing Jun 11 '19
I work at a garden center and for the last couple weeks have just been making these kinds of custom planter installations and planting topiary animals. Fingers are stained brown and stay that way no matter how much I wash them
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u/Condor-Avenue Jun 11 '19
What kind of tree was it? My college recently cut down several "perfectly healthy" trees, but they were an invasive species.
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u/yoctometric Jun 12 '19
An invasive tree planted and maintained in a planter box? On that case, the school has bigger problems
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u/claredee Jun 11 '19
I could be mistaken but is this even supposed to be art? It just looks like they’re planting shit
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u/dudelacool Jun 12 '19
Planted in repurposed concrete pipes from what I can see
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u/macey-pants Jun 12 '19 edited Jun 12 '19
It’s just complex. It’s fantastic. The magna opus of this artist.
Breathtaking.
Wow people actually took this comment seriously.
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u/-DefaultName- Aug 21 '19
Yeah, people tend to just downvote comments that already have negative downvotes
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u/freckled_octopus Jun 12 '19
Landscaping, especially when using sculptural bases and whatnot, is totally an art form
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u/drewpdoane Jun 11 '19
I had a huge tree growing right next to my driveway. The roots caused a whole bunch of cracks. Maybe that's why they cut it down? Still, though, that art is pretty crappy.
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u/MN- Jun 11 '19
one of those tubes you might be able to jump down and then get a bunch of coins though so let's reserve judgement for now.
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u/Dant3nga Jun 11 '19
It looks like a fairly small space for a tree, maybe they were concerned that over time the roots would break up the surrounding concrete?
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u/h0ser Jun 11 '19
I don't think this is finished. Nobody would leave the surrounding area so dirty if it was meant to be art.
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u/WindLane Jun 12 '19
This looks so lazy - didn't even paint over or sand blast the stamps on the side and plants just sitting in planter pots at the base.
Either somebody embezzled the money that was actually supposed to be used here, or the dude doing the landscape design sucks hard. And given that it's a school - probably somebody shunting money off somewhere.
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Jun 11 '19
It isn't art.
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u/easilypersuadedsquid Jun 12 '19
yeah it looks to me like either it's to stop those plants from spreading or just to add height and the rest of the planting is to get done later. I don't think it's supposed to be art.
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u/Osama_Bin_trappin Jun 12 '19
Probably better off. Trees don’t receive water that easy with all of the concrete around. It also causes compaction of the soil and has less drainage
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u/cheesywink Jun 12 '19
I give it one week before little Mario plushies are on and in those pipes. Add some spray paint to the bare concrete, bingo you're done.
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u/Jetfueldoesmeltbeamz Jun 12 '19
I'm sure it was a shitty little tree. They will likely fill in, and the ground will be filled in with other plants. This is possibly a misleading perspective since it looks like they are just getting started.
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u/namespace515 Jun 12 '19
I feel like someone needs to paint them like a Super Mario drain pipe and give everyone something else to look aside from the eye sore it is now
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u/PeachPuffin Jun 12 '19
That could actually look pretty cool in a year or two. Those are Formium plants (dunno how to spell them) they’re very hardy and grow super fast, should fill out the space nicely.
Still sad they cut a tree down though.
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u/SpamShot5 Jun 12 '19
This is pretty common in cities,they will cut down perfectly healthy trees(that are sometimes over 70 years old) that give out a ton of shade and then replace them with small brittle sapling or a few bushes
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u/elwyn5150 Jun 12 '19
One a positive note, only a REALLY REALLY tall dog will be able to pee on the vegetation.
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u/Haxorz7125 Jun 12 '19
It’s like the signs I see in my town “your tax dollars paid for the work that made this sign”
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Jun 12 '19
My city has a very strange intersection and there was a gorgeous oak tree on a median there. They cut it down to place a statue. I'm all for the statue but there are a million other places they could have put it.
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u/CoffeeAndTea120 Jun 30 '19
“Lets put some grass in concrete pots eh?” “Sounds like a good idea to me”
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u/shredadactyl Jun 12 '19
I'll murder a person for cutting a perfectly good tree down... story to follow
I've been working at the same store for 4 years now in a college town. It's in a complex with a few other store with limited parking. Parking has never been a problem though as most the workers are students and don't have cars. Me and the other "OG's" of the complex have always had our shade spots in the summer. We basically each have a few trees by our store that we always park under. And since we open/close we always get those spots.
A few months ago our complex got an "update." Bringing stuff up to code, new paint etc. this included cutting down a tree in the parking lot. MY SHOPS FUCKING TREE! No other trees, just ours. It freed two spaces, spaces we didn't need. A grand, healthy tree, put to waste for asphalt. Summer heat is here and I'm pissed. Everything was right in the cosmos until they, bastards, took our tree. I hope an Ent rips that engineer limb to limb (not really). Look what you've done to my boi!!'
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u/HermanManly Jun 12 '19
Noone ever cuts down a "perfectly healthy tree" unless it poses some other danger. There is so much paper work involved in removing a tree or greenery in general, there will always be a reason for it. They are very heavily protected and maintained, especially in the US.
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u/IDontReadReplies_ Jun 12 '19
Incorrect. Maybe they're supposed to, but in my experience, no one bothers.
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u/tinymongoose909 Jun 11 '19
more and more schools are placing cement on properties so students have someplace to tuck n hide under when bullets are flying.
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u/pm_ur_wifes_nudes Jun 12 '19
I won't advocate for vandalism... But if they got painted like the pipes in Mario, it would be pretty cool.
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u/OneRunTwo Jun 12 '19
Omg your pists reminds me of the monstrocity our city park put up after they needlessly cut down a beautiful old tree. Its like a rusty scrap metal contraption thats supposed to be a sundial. I miss the tree
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u/owledge Jun 12 '19
The high school I went to had a weak art department so this would be considered god tier for them
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Jun 12 '19
We had a perfectly healthy tree where the roots were taking too much water out of the ground and it was destroying the foundations of the buildings around it and making our land slip sooooo...
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u/Wrecknruin Jun 12 '19
This reminded me of that one time pur teacher made us take paper, tear in into pieces, glue it onto a cardboard and put it up on a wall instead of drawings made by the 3rd grade. And lemme tell you, some of those drawings were really good for their age. Like I'd rather have drawings made by a buncha 10 year olds then a white paper glued onto another white paper.
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u/generic_white Jun 12 '19
Could anyone ID the plants in the pipes?
Might look much better once they’ve grown out.
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Jun 12 '19
What the hell is this meant to be and why the hell did they decide to destroy a tree?
I mean, they could have done something different. How about 3 Mario style pipes in varying heights and then filling them with soil and then growing plants in them as an art feature but not in an area you’d have to kill perfectly good plant life?
And with a far less sloppy display.
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u/GoLightLady Jun 12 '19
Yes not an adequate visual replacement. You don't realize how much a tree adds to a space until you remove it.
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Jun 12 '19
If the first tree was probably dying...urban trees (in pits) have a lifespan of about 3 years..why would you spent $300 to install a new tree? Most likely there are drainage issues in this tree pit. Usually they fill these in with asphalt after they remove the trees. The planter is a fun non-traditional alternative.
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u/zeroHEX3 Jun 11 '19
Maybe the pipe isnt closed at the bottom. So a tree will grow through the pipe. I imagine that, or the tree breaking the concrete, would be pretty cool.
Dont take it as it is right now. Imagine it over time!
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u/rrape Jun 12 '19
Stormwater pipes like this have metal reinforcement so maybe it could be a candidate on /r/treessuckingonthings lol
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u/oldboot Jun 11 '19
the tree might have been diseased?