the more trees i was painting the more i got intrigued by the fact that every tree has it own marks, scars, traces made by humans. we give trees a branding - an additional individuality. from my walks i took hundreds of photographs from trees that are marked with colour. some with white colour, pink, yellow, and orange. signs that are - at least to me - an alien language.
i wanted to give each tree a personality and dignity. that's why i painted them like a classical portrait: centered, face to viewer, upright.
i used mortar for this painting, in order to get a similar impression to the bark of a tree.
