October Sun on Cypress Oil Landscape Painting ancients There are two dark figures

There are two dark figures in the painting who

A beautiful cedar at an old cemetery was the model for this painting

to rescue the sacred sparks trapped within them

Spells range from love to healing to protection to cursing

October Sun on Cypress Oil Landscape Painting ancients There are two dark figuresThe 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