Medium:  Acrylic

Size:  40"w x 40"h

I'm working on my new series of paintings, which all involve the resilence of our North American landscape.  This one begins with this fabulous tree I found while in Punta Gorda after last years hurricanes.  During the high winds, everything was picked up, tossed about, and in particular many cacti were left stranded in the treetops.  So while the trees are stripped of their limbs and are just now regrowing leaves, the cacti have taken root and are now growing from the bark on the trees!  It's very exciting, and something that nature has decided as a new course of the landscape.

I just had to paint some examples. Also very interesting is the "leveling" of the horizon.  The land itself is almost flat now, with only a few trees that survived to their original height.