Tree reflections

Tree reflections

 

Black gesso, acrylic, rice paper and foil on paper. About 7” x 7”.

 

I want to explore tree reflections in water because  there are so many things going on. There is the above and below (in the air, and on the water surface). There is the distant and close. There is the immobile, large (trunk) and moving, small (leaf). There is earth and sky.  

 

I’m also fascinated by trees because they are so ageless and universal. This almost identical scene has been experienced by man and animal, king and peasant, hominid and me.

 

Alice Anne Ellis