OAK TREE AND LIMBS

This silhouette of a tree pained on weathered fence board is from the giant oak trees of southern Louisiana where limbs touch the ground and children run up them.  I climbed these and was convinced that the roots connected to those limbs.  Later in life, I used the same image to explain interconnectedness, where all knowledge relates at the tips of branches.  In both ideas there's a reliance on metaphorical expression through nature to reduce complexity.