“Fur Tree and Weird Trails” (acrylic on canvas)

My first comment was “The sky isn’t awful…” But it is, isn’t it? I guess what I meant was that the sky looks more like what it’s supposed to be than anything else here does. It’s a toss up between the sky and the tree on the left (which is a better tree than I could paint): it’s recognizably a tree, just not a very happy one. It’s a middle-aged, balding, paunchy tree; a tree that is contemplating its wasted life; a life cluttered with infidelities, capitulations, cowardice, prevarications and lies to oneself. No, this is not a happy tree at all.