Birds 9 (Tree of Life)

This stylized tree rises like a living totem, its trunk articulated in warm, tessellated bands that read as both bark and woven architecture, suggesting the patient labor of growth and inheritance. Against the open, unmodulated ground, the clustered leaves—alternating red and blue—pulse with ceremonial rhythm, turning the canopy into a patterned sky where color becomes breath and season at once. Small green birds punctuate the branches as watchful emissaries, their repeated presence transforming ornament into narrative: a community of voices nested within abundance. The overall composition balances symmetry with lively branching deviations, proposing a vision of nature not as wilderness, but as an ordered, celebratory ecology of belonging.