Lines from nature – The beech tree

Drawing Impulses

Parallel lines observed in the nature, realism and abstraction.
In this impulse I would like to think with you about a tree, namely the beech tree. Not so much in its great expanse, but to take a closer look at the trunk, to study the bark in detail. The beech is a tree that grows mainly in North America, Europe, and parts of Asia. Wherever winters are not too cold and summers not too hot and, above all, not too dry. Beech trees like to grow in mixed forests. They are certainly one of our most common trees. The beech is a very old plant with a long history, that can be traced thanks to fossil findings. Its history goes back to the Cretaceous period, about 84 to 72 million years ago. That was about the time when the dinosaurs were alive and beech trees are at least as old. They are eyewitnesses from these ancient times. They have something in their consciousness that is much older than what we as humans bear in our hidden consciousness.