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A paid TIME subscription is separate and available at time.com/subscribe-agent. by [Milo Sumner / Lost at E Minor](https://time.com/author/lost-at-e-minor-zolton-zavos/) ## Milo Sumner / Lost at E Minor Oct 28, 2014 8:00 PM UTC by [Milo Sumner / Lost at E Minor](https://time.com/author/lost-at-e-minor-zolton-zavos/) ## Milo Sumner / Lost at E Minor Oct 28, 2014 8:00 PM UTC  _This_ [_article_](http://www.lostateminor.com/2014/10/22/artistic-couple-roving-western-europe-painting-faces-trees/) _originally appeared on_ [_Lost at E Minor_](http://www.lostateminor.com/)_._ “Game of Thrones” anyone? This ongoing art project gives faces to decaying trees. Started eight years ago by German collective [Zonenkinder](http://www.zonenkinder.org/), The Tree Project gives a semblance of life to stumps and branches that are sadly no longer growing. In Denmark, France and Germany, these tree faces are springing up everywhere, sometimes with great bushy hair-dos or with a handsome piece of mushroom-adorned headgear. Drawn entirely using bio-degradable materials, the faces fade slowly over time meaning that they blend perfectly with their surroundings rather than standing out. “_The Tree Project – outside_ is an ongoing art project since 2006 inspired by the beauty and the decay of nature,” explains Zonenkinder. “We are constantly in search of new forms of expressions and we love to play with exceptional locations and surfaces like on trees in the woods.” Check out the video—although it is in German it still shows the duo at work in the forest. _Read next:_ [_These Amazing Chemical Reactions Will Show You the True Beauty of Science_](http://time.com/3481898/amazing-chemical-reactions-true-beauty-of-science/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3543915/artistic-paint-faces-on-trees/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3543915/artistic-paint-faces-on-trees/"},"headline":"Watch This Artistic European Couple Paint Faces on Trees","datePublished":"2014-10-28T20:00:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:15.819Z","description":"These tree faces appear in Denmark, France and Germany","url":"https://time.com/3543915/artistic-paint-faces-on-trees/","keywords":["Innovation","Humor","Fine Art","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Milo Sumner / Lost at E Minor"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3543915/artistic-paint-faces-on-trees/","name":"Watch This Artistic European Couple Paint Faces on Trees"}}]}] ```