Opine Painting

This framed six foot tall dusk silhouette of a magnificent white pine is painted with chunky, impasto, glossy black paint. The background, in contrast, is utterly smooth like the sky. I understand trees as messengers of the passage of time, as indicators of tenacity and perseverance and as givers of life even long after thier own death. I was reading "The Hidden Life of Trees" when I painted this icon. I hope the viewers can relate to finding an experience of awe in looking up to special trees in thier own surroundings.