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I bring you the finest Internet reading in my weekly Linkfest

From “Twist”, by Christopher “Monsieur Plant” Guinet

It’s time for the weekly Linkfest! The finest Internet reading material I could scavenge, just for you. I’ve done 58 of these so far.

Let’s begin …

1) 🌳 Trees turned into curving, twisty shapes

Christophe Guinet is also known as “Monsieur Plant” because a lot of his art uses plants as materials, riffing off of pop culture and the blurry line between our artificial and natural worlds.

For his latest project, “Twist”, Guinet …

… delicately twists and contorts robust pieces of tree trunk, modeling them into five designs recalling everyday symbols and objects. The series includes ‘Tree Knot’, ‘Barbed Wood’, ‘Nature Lover’, ‘Wooden Lace’, and ‘Infinity’ — each connoting the various emotions that can be found in nature. The hyper-realistic works have been molded into distinct shapes to question the powers of nature and its ability to transform and adapt while testing the bounds of its limitations.

You can see more pictures of Twist here at Guinet’s site; my favorite might be the tree in the shape of an infinity sign. I’ve no idea how he’s…