October Sun on Cypress Oil Landscape Painting Size:Original oil painting on panel 9 x 12"/23 x 30cm That doesn't stop the townsfolk

That doesn't stop the townsfolk from enjoying the beautiful dance of flames

I have been fascinated how something that seems to us like a flat disk can be in actuality so textural and almost torn apart by movement

Breaking through to higher realms--how do you know when you are really ascending and when you are just kidding yourself

in a quiet way--is how nature reclaims these areas

October Sun on Cypress Oil Landscape Painting Size:Original oil painting on panel 9 x 12"/23 x 30cm That doesn't stop the townsfolkThe 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