Ashish's World

Ripley's Building (Ontario, Canada) Wooden Gagster House (Archangelsk, Russia) Erwin Wurm: House Attack (Viena, Austria) Nakagin Capsule Tower (Tokyo, Japan) The Ufo House (Sanjhih, Taiwan) Hang Nga Guesthouse a.k.a Crazy House (Vietnam) Cubic Houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands) Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada) Wonderworks (Orlando, Florida, United States) Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, United States) The Basket Building (Ohio, United States) Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace (France) The Torre Galatea Figueres (Spain) The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland) Forest Spiral - Hundertwasser Building (Darmstadt, Germany)

Between the small towns of Fallon and Austin stands a tree on the side of the highway. Much like the gum tree in Ohio, it has become a living, breathing work of collective art - a piece which has an unwritten history and a fluid, unending future. It exists by the sheer will of its anonymous participants and the spirit of conspiracy. I present to you, in all its breathtaking majesty and glory, the Nevada shoe tree. People amaze and amuse me. It is a wonderment that never ceases. Often times it can be appalling, the brutal and insensitive nature of humanity, but for the most part, I've always found it inspiring. Man is capable of the grandest achievements - philosophically, artistically, and mechincally - and yet, simultaneously, can be reduced to tearful, hysterical laughter by a really good fart joke. It is this duality of the human spirit that moves me; the sacred and the profane, the high-brow and the low-brow, the earnest endeavor and the flight of fancy.There is a tree at the K...