Populus Flucta in real

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In October/November '12 me and my friend travelled to South-Africa to visit my Dad and to make a camper trip through Namibia.
One of the things I really have to mention in this art blog, is that the story of one of my paintings, now has become to life …

    When I painted Populus Flucta in 2006, the base of this idea were the unique nests build by birds that live in the Kalahari desert. The nests are actually enormous hollow rooms and can contain sometimes more than 100 pairs of birds and the nests can be used by several generations of birds. I had never seen this nests in real. I only had read about it.

populus flucta by vanlubeck    Now, 6 years later, we camped at the edge of the Kalahari desert! There was no fence or a border; just the remote camp site and ‘everything out there’. It wasn’t a difficult decision to set the alarm clock just before sun rise (otherwise it was too hot for a long walk) and sneak into the wide and silent desert. The sky was beautifully lilac and the animals were not to sleep yet.
After an hour I saw a HUGE one.
They also nesting in living trees by vanlubeck  A large nest of the birds called 'social weavers' by vanlubeck  Here you see all the 'doors' to the seperate rooms by vanlubeck  Sometimes the birds choose a pole by vanlubeck

One of the other fantastic trees were the ‘Quivers’ (for the Dutchies; Kokerboom sounds nice too).
The trunks looks a bit like my Agaricia Bullio!

agaricia bullio by vanlubeck  The trunk of a quiver by vanlubeck  and their beautiful crown of succulent leaves by vanlubeck  I admit ... I'm a tree hugger by vanlubeck  Some artistic objects in the Quivers park by vanlubeck






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