As Within So Without 7 (Tree of Life Diptych)

The composition cleaves the landscape into converging planes, as if a single ridge has been folded into memory and remade—half atmospheric, half inhabited. A vein-like tree rises as a luminous axis, its coral branching stitching together cool, patterned sky and the ochres of a clustered settlement, suggesting nature not as backdrop but as the organizing intelligence of place. The repeating eye-like motifs and mosaic houses create a quiet surveillance of time: fields, dwellings, and weather watching one another in a tense yet tender coexistence. Warm greens and burnished golds glow against slate blues, turning topography into a psychological map where belonging is both rooted and precarious.