"TREE ON MT. POAS"
Oil on canvas with marble sand, beeswax and wire mesh
48" x 60"

Mt. Poas is one of Costa Rica's many volcanoes. One day as I was walking on its slopes I saw this lightening-battered tree still projecting virility. It seemed to be defiant and saying to Nature that "I'm still standing tall after your knockout punch." It was a rainforest drama that just cried out to me to be painted.