tree fungus community on a dying birch tree
Acrylic on canvas, 34 1/2 x 28 in. (2006)

Something of an expansion on an earlier work (Saprophyte), this is a looking-upward view of tree fungii festooning a dying White Birch tree, or at least dying the sense that all of the leaves and small branches are gone. That can't be good for trees.

Of interest perhaps, is that there are appear to be four stages to the life of a tree: the young tree growing, the mature fully grown tree, the dead but still standing tree, and the fallen tree. All in all, trees are around for perhaps hundreds of years, a self-monument, and home and succor for many beings and beasts of our world as their host crumbles into dust.

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