The Tree

30" x 40" Oil on canvas


“The Tree” has furthered my understanding of a love to combine worlds through art.  No matter the dimension, place, memory, time, or emotion, art allows us to combine worlds of every kind.  It allows us to see that there is only one “world” and our imagination/spirit is the universe that holds it all.
This piece is a combination of dreams, a childhood aura of exploration, and ones journey to bring youthful spirit into dreams coming true.  This work of art is meant to honor our inner child’s dreams and aspirations.  More, it is to honor a man who made his dreams comes true.  He was a boy from Israel climbing trees and listening to his spirit of adventure.  He continued to listen and this voice taught him to flip, fly, stand on his hands, and heave his body all about.  With discipline, his childhood inclinations and spirit would be the catalyst in forming his life.  Through competing those flips against the world, to competing his magnified love for climbing trees in the States {and a free education}, the boy became a man.  The man was not done climbing trees, flipping and flying – although those are ‘things of child’s play.’  He found an outlet in performance, on the Las Vegas Strip no less.  He could get paid to climb on a tree!!  He could make a living, support a family, and live his dreams amongst others also never giving up on their dreams.  
This painting is a birthday present to a man turning 40 from his brilliant and beautiful wife.  It’s a gift for a man I admire and honor.  He is a man as comfortable standing on his hands as standing on his legs, though I am pretty sure he prefers the hands. Even when trying to give him something great and worthy, I am still taught by this humble, brilliant man.  It is in this one world we show up naked with no thing but body, spirit, consciousness and choice.  This one world is where we combine these gifts of nature to be made or make something.  I choose to make something.  Anyone want to join?