Nature's Art Masterpieces

Nature's Art Masterpieces 

On display at Living with Nature Center

San Vicente Botanical Garden

RA 11645 San Vicente Ilocos Sur Heritage Zone of the North

   "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."       - Albert Einstein

                 

   Dr Abe V Rotor

Termite Nest

Lignin in wood to soluble cellulose,

back into soil cum nutrients;

plants grow upon and become trees

again in the next generation -

nature's art, cycle, and evolution. 

Juvenile Brain Coral

Convoluted and shaped like brain,

 hard as rock and keeps on growing, 

host and abode of sea creatures,

ripraps the islands from sinking.  

Paper Wasp (Putakti) Hive

Perfect and uniform octagonal chambers,

work of the Hymenopteran,

where bees and wasps rear their young,

imitated short by human.

Nest of Mud Dauber Wasp 

Wonder a wasp making an igloo of mud,

in a corner or on the wall,

keeps caterpillars inside for her young

to devour like a ghoul. ~

Common Flora in Philippine Gardens*

 Common Flora in Philippine Gardens*

On-Site Photographs and Taxonomic Identification 

By Dr Abe V Rotor

Red kalachuchi (Plumeria rubra)

 

Yellow gummamela (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis); Red gummamela (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis)

 

Gummamela (Hibiscus schizopetalus);  Variegated gummamela (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis)

  

Corazon de Maria (Caladium bicolor); Fancy-leaved Caladium (Caladium humboltii)

 

Euphorbia (Euphorbia splendens); Pandakaking tsina (Ervatamia divaricata)

 

Water plant (Philodendron hastatum);  Lantana (Lantana camara)

 

Daisy (Gerbera jamesonii)

 

Doña Trining (white) - Mussaenda philippica; 

Doña Aurora (Mussaenda philippica var aurorarae)

 

Lobsterclaw (Heliconia acuminata); ripe fruits of pandakaki 

(Tabernamontana pandakaki); 

  

 (Livistonia acuminata); Powderpuff lily (Haemanthus multiflorus)

 

       Beach hymenocallis (Hymenocallis litoralis) / Spider lily (Crinum asiaticum)

 

Croton (Codiaeum variegatum); Croton (Codiaeum variegatum)

 

Tiger hemp (Sanziviera zeylanica);  Garden asparagus (Asparagus officinales); 

 Entanglement of lianas and other viny plants 

* Many plants in this collection were documented by the author from a number of places, as far as Guimaras Island, which are typical of Philippine gardens. Other lists are found in this blog, under San Vicente Botanical Garden. ~

Nature's Art: Mycelial Impression

Nature's Art:  Mycelial Impression

Dr Abe V Rotor

Mycelial impression on a wall mural on nature painted by the author.

San Vicente Botanical Garden

Old painting on the wall exposed to sun and rain, 

 fungi underneath surreptitiously working 

'til it peeled off.  And lo! a magnificent art design.

 Eureka! I found a school of art emerging. ~  

Artifact is a Work of Art

Artifact is a Work of Art

"No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.                 -  Bernard Berenson

Dr Abe V Rotor

On display at Living with Nature Center

San Vicente Botanical Garden  

San Vicente Ilocos Sur (Heritage Zone of the North RA 11645)

Key of an Ancestral Baol (wooden chest) 

Key to treasures of our ancestors

in wooden chest long kept,

now empty, or full still and hidden;

Or key to heaven's gate long lost,

or brought down to earth 

to end our endless search.

Remnant of a Old Nail

Nail rustling and crumbling, reminiscent 

of the passion on a mountain far away,

it's red dust riding on the wind to where

the faithful have long lost their way. 

 

 Bolt on Molave Wood (sagat) from an Ancestral House

Useless each without the other,

now free from their union;

what is freedom from one another,

at the loss of function? 

Burial Jar from Fuga Island

Sacred vessel desecrated

at the crossroad of faith,

where past and present divide

 at a narrow gate.

Canon Ball from a River Bed

A rolling stone gathers no moss, 

like a wheel down the river,

into perfect symmetry it grows,

into a canon ball of fire.  

Mt Pinatubo Rock, 1991 Eruption

Pinatubo's pyroclastic rock, 

shapeless until carved

 into figurine - or just a rock - 

 whatever purpose it may serve.

Glazed Rock from a Tobacco-Flue Curing Furnace

From sedimentary to metamorphic rock,

for eons man tried to copy nature;

limestone to marble, resin to amber,

carbon to diamond - and more.

Prehistoric Fossil (Unidentified) 

Molar of an Asian elephant likely,

for the museum and laboratory;

but who could tell it's one really,

unless confirmed by paleontology? 

Remnant of a Tree that Arose from a Broken Jar (Burnay)

Like the Phoenix bird rising out of the ashes,

this tree arose from the inside of a broken jar;

mythical indeed is a phenomenon unexplained 

where reality and fantasy meet from afar. ~

Evolution of Life According to Postmodern Art

           Evolution of Life According to Postmodern Art 

Paintings and Verses by Dr Abe V Rotor

Speleology and tourism, what a combination;

though both exploit the secrets of the past,  

trace the beginning of human's civilization,

and Plato's allegory of the escaped outcast.    

 Linnaeus, if alive today, would wonder, 

how he missed in his study 

organisms posthumously emerged  

from science and technology.  

 

 Coral reef of deceiving beauty, 

red for warning, black for death;

white as skeleton; blue-green, 

invasion of the primitive scum

that once ruled the early earth.   

If you can decipher what life forms these are, 

you must be an artist, like Picasso or Matisse,

masters of abstract art - not the ideal, the real, 

      the form and order of God's creation remissed. ~   

  

Convert old and broken jars into works of art

  Convert old and broken jars into works of art

Make a masterpiece on a broken jar,

discarded and destined to oblivion;

make it come to life again, far, far

from its earthly origin and function.

Paintings on burnay or glazed earthen jars by Dr Abe V Rotor 

 
Two subjects - a school of fish and a flock of birds,
blend with their respective landscapes.

Colorful carps circle along the midriff of the jar; below, fries keep 

distance from them. The shape of the jar is ideal for illusion 

and artistic composition.

  

There is movement in this subject, the rotary motion is 

heightened by the three dimensions of the painting.  

An artistic mind never stops looking for a subject he can paint or draw, or compose into music. Thus, he can hear the chime of the jars, too.

The base is colorful enough sans bouquet atop;

simply let it alone without.  

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"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary” - Pablo Picasso

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform
a yellow spot into the sun.” – Pablo Picasso

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"A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.” – Edgar Degas ~