As Within So Without 2 (Abstract Tree and Portal)

This work stages a quiet collision between time and growth: a cross‑section of wood reads like a clock face, its rings holding memory, while a translucent blossom‑cloud hovers above as if the past were still exhaling color. Against it, a dense green mass opens into a dark, circular void—an eye, a wound, or a portal—around which filaments flare like roots or nerves, turning the landscape into a body that both shelters and aches. The composition pivots on this dialogue of concentric order and organic unruliness, where warm rusts and ochres are repeatedly cooled by watery blues, suggesting nature’s cyclical resilience shadowed by an unknowable absence.