BUZZ ISSUE-U:BEE ONLINE #01

You Heard Of These
Have
Hobbies?
Unusual
shaping certainly isn't a skill you can learn
Tree
and it can take many years for the end
quickly
to be finished! Tree shaping is known by
result
few different names but it involves growing
a
trees and other plants into different
living
and art..
structures
practice was used hundreds of years ago
The
form bridges and houses but now tree
to
grow shapes like the chair in the
shapers
below.
picture
a look at the works of Axel Erlandson and
Have
Cook (in the chair below) to see some
Peter
examples of tree art. It's a
stunning
art of cutting, shaping and
complicated
bonding two species of plant
sometimes
but the results are stunning!
together
you know someone who enjoys studying
Do
gravestones and burial sites? Their
cemeteries,
would be TAPHOPHILIA!
hobby
not as strange as it sounds. Graveyards
It's
a huge amount of historical
contain
and many of the gravestones and
information
are works of art.
mausoleums
tell stories of families through the
Gravestones
and many people use the information
ages
find out to help them research their own
they
ancestors.
people enjoy researching certain
Many
where historical figures are buried.
cemeteries
good place to start your interest in
A
is in your local place of worship.
taphophilia
will find easy obtainable historical records
You
gravestones and often you will be able to
of
a 'rubbing' of the stone details.
make
placing art paper over the stone and
By
with a soft pastel crayon the stone
rubbing
are revealed on your picture.
details
written and photographic records of
Make
you visit and you will be on your way to
places
a taphophilia expert!
becoming
TREE
SHAPING
Tree Shaping Photo Courtesy Of:Blackash at English Wikipedia
[CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)]
TAPHOPHILIA -
STUDYING
GRAVESTONES
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