October Sun on Cypress Oil Landscape Painting land The original mixed media painting

The original mixed media painting is 10

The mystic is advised not to be fooled if it looks like the water is rushing past--it is really the mystic who is rising

or general interfering with and individual or the community

I love how the reddish color of the wood peeks through the blue-grey bark on a cedar

the spirits followed

October Sun on Cypress Oil Landscape Painting land The original mixed media paintingThe pale October sun greets this cypress in its cemetery home. I love how cypress bark gets all sorts of creases and folds, like it's recording history in its form. A crease starts and travels up the tree, becoming deeper, perhaps curving, and then shallower until it is melded into the trunk's shape, where it disappears from our view as it recedes into the tree's memory. To me, this is how history can impact any living being. This tree is great at