As you can tell, this tree makes an appearance through some of my art work. I made a drawing of this idea back in high school when I was sixteen. I posted that drawing here on my blog two posts previous to this one.
In the meantime, I’ll share this one which I made back in 2003. It was around the time that Bush and his gang were lying about WMDs in Iraq. At that point in time I didn’t know anything about foreign policy, but I intuited that what Bush was doing with our country was terribly wrong.
This tree has some other #symbolism behind it as well, as it associates with the Greek philosopher Socrates. He is famous for questioning everyone to try to get to the essence of what others professed and boasted as authorities. This activity culminated in authorities of his time condemning him to drink hemlock as a sentence for death.
As I said, back in 2003 I knew nothing about how the mass psychology worked, and how people, for the most part, obey their authority figures without making a fuss too much.
The tree in this image looks like the hands are prone towards the heavens as if to ask ‘why’ in a symbolic gesture. Branches have also been cut from the tree to show how the activities of man limit, cut, and stunt its growth for his own vision of fitting in with the rest of society, and imposing this vision upon the beautiful trees composing our planet in nature.
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