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Tree

Deborah Santoro

I happen to love this certain kind of tree that looks as if its bark is peeling off.  I’m not sure what it’s called.  I saw one in my hometown from the Dunkin Donut’s drive-up ordering station.

And started a preliminary sketch:

Funny that I thought I’d be so interested in the bark and the branches, and it ends up being the power lines and metal walls that draw my attention.  I also wondered at the back story behind that tree being there at all.  I’ll have to go back and look again.  Tomorrow I’ll start over on a better piece of paper.

By the way, today marks 2 solid weeks of daily drawing and it feels GREAT!

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Published by Deborah Santoro

My work deals with themes of human and nonhuman intelligence, and what it means to return home when the nature of home itself is nebulous and undefined. As an interdisciplinary artist with homebases in painting and printmaking, I explore the interstitial spaces between these and other media, relishing the borderlands–the slippage between idea and medium. Lens based ways of looking interact with a fierce love of materiality that echoes the earth itself, and the ways in which humanity interacts with the homeostatic systems that comprise Gaia, the living earth.

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