Tuesday August 15, 2006

"Big Cherry Tree" 16" x 20" available on etsy

Tuesday, Tuesday. Nice. I am a little bit obsessed with the giant cherry tree in our backyard lately, and I can't seem to stop painting it. Or, my version of it. Sadly, the actual tree lost a limb yesterday. The branch just came crashing down, out of the blue, like a giant bark covered arm. The tree is over a hundred years old and spent a few years covered in ivy before our landlady rescued it. Or so the story goes. It's trunk is enormous and deformed, full of scars and twisted bark.

When I get obsessive about painting the same thing over and over again, I start to feel like all of those people in Close Encounters, (one of my all time favorite movies.) who frantically painted Devils Tower again and again. Do you think aliens are planning to land beside the cherry tree in our backyard? Is there someone I should notify about this kind of thing? A 1-800 number I should call or something? I need to know if there is something else I should be doing before I start crafting cherry trees out of giant mounds of mashed potatoes.