This painting represents the concept that all plants are not simply ‘things’ but ever-changing, ever-spiraling processes of life. Each tree spirals into existence as it raises itself toward the sun. Each branch spirals around the trunk as it grows. Each leaf spirals into existence then spirals to the ground in the fall to be replaced by new spiraling leaves in the spring.
All life is a process of transformation.
And each painting begins as a messy idea from the mind, brought to paper with pencil:
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