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This is what happens when you hold onto a tree and never let go as it keeps growing. Giuseppe Penone created It Will Continue to Grow Except at That Point by casting his hand around the trunk of a young tree and then leaving it alone. Over time, the... show more
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Brief? I would say more like consistent.

did you know trees can cool down cities during heatwaves?

that is not "brief", his hand stays on the tree forever

Wtf are you yapping about there's litteraly a metal hand stuck in the tree of course it's gonna leave a mark 💀

I don't get it. They title this art. Yet, anyone that's ever owned land/farm has seen this action by trees since the beginning of time. Go look at fences on oldder homestead.

🌳 Trees actually record every environmental pressure they ever experienced. Each growth ring contains the chemical signature of that year drought, disease, volcanic ash, temperature shifts. A cross section of an old tree is a 500 year climate archive. Penone's hand left a physical indentation. The atmosphere leaves a chemical one. Every living thing carries a permanent record of every force that ever touched it!

Wait… people are actually applauding a tree being “messed with” for art? So the tree grows naturally, except where a human decided to leave their mark. That’s basically forced evolution for the sake of Instagram aesthetics. Are we really celebrating creativity, or just subtle vandalism disguised as philosophy?

This is bullshit. Simply “touching” a tree is NOT going to do this. But ATTACHING a foreign object to a tree will. The superpower of the tree is that it will eventually ENVELOP the foreign object.

If, in fact, he had just stood there all those years, hand around the tree, that tree would've killed him. And we'd all be saying different things.

"Brief human contact" and it's 14 strait fucking years

Looks pretty fire at the end.

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Penone’s 1968 bronze cast illustrates thigmorphogenesis, where plants alter growth based on mechanical touch. Over decades, the tree's vascular cambium expanded around the metal, permanently documenting human intervention through natural biological resistance.

What material was this "arm" made off? You see trees growing around stuff everywhere. But the tree also got some force to make it's way

No it isn’t. No one has they grip strength to not open their hand as the tree grows.

I wouldn’t call that a brief interaction lol

Cause he did some things with that hand before he touched the tree

It does that with any obstruction you put on a tree. Even Brush that can grow into wood trees. I let a privet grow into a Tree vs. Shrub, and there was an iron bird feeder in it. The thing grew right into the trunk of it, so it's part of the tree now.

It grew around the cast of the hand that was left there. It wasn't brief contact that impacted growth but the object that remained attached to the stump. It's interesting as an illustration of tree biology. Not because of the AI waffle that's been pasted in this post.
This is a famous tree on Vashon Island in Washington State. A kid in the 1950s leaned his bike against the tree, and the tree grew around it, even lifting it off the ground!

It’s a beautiful reminder that even fleeting contact an instant in the life of a tree can leave something enduring. There’s a quiet humility in it too

Yeah yeah, arty genius. Like every farmer hasn’t stuck something on a tree. One of ours had handlebars.

Its surely not a brief human contact… the guy literally casted his hand to the tree..

A real human hand would simply be pushed away as the grew.

If it can't crush it, it will grow around it because it has no choice but too, I don't get why this is such profound philosophy to some people its simple logic. Trees eat anything that's in their way, there is heaps of pictures of them consuming road signs

Wow 😮 That’s incredible. The way the tree carries the memory of the hand is so poetic like a silent dialogue between humans and nature. Growth, time, and restraint creating art without force ,truly inspiring.

Wow… a simple touch can leave a mark that lasts forever. Art and nature blending to show the subtle power of human presence. 🌳✋

"a quiet record of how even brief human contact can leave a lasting mark on nature." Bullshit bubbling master class. Nothing briefly here.

Hold a tree long enough... and it holds you back. Penone's hand cast in 1968 grew INTO the trunk over decades. A quiet reminder: our touch echoes in the living world forever. Who's still holding on?

Very cool but this is not "brief human contact." It is rather sustained human contact over multiple years?

Nature and art coming together like this is fascinating. It’s amazing how something simple can turn into a powerful statement about time and growth.

Very interesting to see how nature adapts this tree is a perfect example of just how resilient and resourceful the natural world can be. Even in the toughest conditions, it finds a way to grow, bend, and survive. The adaptability on display here is genuinely remarkable.

Brief? It’s still holding the bloody thing. Of course it grows around it!

