Halo Series
The Halo Series began with Halo, inspired by sycamore bark. The Sycamore tree, belonging to Earth’s oldest clan of trees, Planataceae, presides regally over every landscape it graces. Look out over winter’s bone yard when the sky is this planet’s deepest blue and linger on the pristine white branches of these iconic giants.
The bark of all trees must yield to a growing trunk but the Sycamore invites the world to witness its growth as its outer layers, intractable and dusty with age, split and spall in great irregular masses. This bark, like shed skin or old beliefs or lessons learned, settles on the ground at the base of each mammoth; proof in the form of a disappearing halo, that life means growth--painful, messy, necessary.
Just as bark is shed, so too are Magnolia leaves, Catalpa and Kentucky Coffeetree pods and stems, and Maple seed stems. The series continues as I discover new curiosities. All these natural elements hold the bounty of metaphor that life means growth, profound and majestic.
