DIVINE FOREST      © Francoise Monnereau

Oil on canvas      150cm x 100cm

$3250

"DIVINE FOREST"

 

I have always remembered the story of the "Master Trees". The older trees who teach the young trees the Wisdom of Life. Each forest had their Elders...but nowadays, with the intensive "Deforestation", the Elders have almost disappeared, living our forests without Wisdom. Here in Australia, we still have beautiful Elders, and I have met one of them, my dear friend the "Strangler Fig Tree". First, looking at him, I felt an ecstasy... later on, I learned that there were in fact two trees, embracing each other, in a deadly dance, as one was killing the other. My look on this tree deepened, and I saw there the Transformation Cycle, the Death and Rebirth of a beautiful "Master Tree" wearing the traces of Love and Hatred intervined...

 

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