Bottle Trees x 3
by Janette Boyd
Title
Bottle Trees x 3
Artist
Janette Boyd
Medium
Photograph - Photo/texture/digital
Description
Photo of three bottle trees near my home in Osage County, Oklahoma. Cloud and sky texture created by FAA Artist, Jai Johnson was added using Corel Paintshop's techniques of brushes and blending.
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Bottle Trees x 3
When African slaves arrived, they created bottle trees from dead trees or large limbs next to their quarters and adorned them with glass bottles scavenged from their masters garage piles. Blue bottles were coveted, because they repelled evil and trapped night spirits to be destroyed by the rising sun. Many Milk of Magnesia bottles ended up on trees!
Bottle trees, often referred to as "poor man's stained glass", can also be made from wooden posts with large nails, welded metal rods, or bottles simply stuck on the tines of an upended pitch fork, Rushing says. You can use any color bottle, but blue ones are considered the best, because of their centuries-old association with ghosts and spirits.
http://www.almanac.com/blog/gardening-blog/bottle-trees-mystical-color-garden
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April 15th, 2015
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Comments (6)
Janette Boyd
Thank you, Tina, for the feature in 'Artists Best Five Artwork". I love this group and I am honored to be selected.
Janette Boyd
Thank you, Neal, for the feature in your great group, "All Things Reflective". I am honored!
Berta Keeney
Janette, what an amazing story to go with this really fantastic image! I loved reading the background on this!!
Janette Boyd replied:
Thank you for your nice comment, Berta! I think all artwork is more interesting with a story attached.