The Socratic Tree (original drawing)

This is the first drawing I ever made of The Socratic Tree. I didn’t title this drawing with that title originally, as I had not even considered a title for it. I made this drawing back in 1991 when I was first growing into an awakened awareness of what art really meant to me.

I had been experiencing some throes of depression and heartbreak over a girl I was infatuated with, so I made a few works of art pertaining to this sort of dark night depressive state.

I tried to put a crow in Times of Opposition–which also depicts The Socratic Tree on the left side of that diptych–but it blended in with the night sky too much, so you can’t see it. You can, however, see the crow here in this picture. I know that crows don’t fly at night, but moon is shining, so, perhaps the bird is a raven.