Dream City 10 (Arboreal City)

A molten, earthen palette of ochres and umbers carries the scene like heat rising from soil, while rhythmic striations in the background turn space into a living current rather than a static sky. At the center, a vertical axis—part trunk, part conduit—binds a floating, pale ring to a clustered settlement below, suggesting a fragile covenant between nourishment, memory, and human habitation. The houses read as carved icons, their geometric windows and patterned walls implying inherited ritual and labor, while the hovering disc becomes a threshold—moon, bread, or sanctuary—suspended between abundance and erosion. The composition feels both protective and precarious, as if the landscape is holding its breath to keep this small world intact.