Blue Trees project – Tree Art for a cause

These strange blue trees may look like they came straight out of the movie Avatar but they were actually painted using an environmentally-safe water-based pigment as part of an art installation in Canada.

It was initially displayed at the 2011 Vancouver Biennale and was extended in Seattle on the Burke-Gillman Trail in Kenmore, Washington, USA.

Konstantin Dimopoulos says in painting trees blue he asks viewers to question how thoroughly we have destroyed various forests around the world.

His use of ultramarine blue was his desire to create some kind of sacred awareness. He writes that The Blue Trees is a social art action. Through color I am making a personal statement about the spirituality of trees and their importance to our very survival: trees are the lungs of the planet.

He hopes that his work will inspire others to notice what is reverential about the trees that we have so carelessly destroyed. They are an unusual canvas, but incredibly powerful.