Description:
The century-old tree bears many rings of wisdom. Painted with simple melancholic lines, ‘Of Trees and Hope’ presents the lessons one may learn from such a tree as expressed by poet Dinah Hawken. A knowledge of the tree’s patient waiting and slow strengthening are particularly appropriate for times in which we too find ourselves ‘bound to the earth’ and grappling with the grief of the Covid-19 pandemic. Hidden in the bare-boned harmonies is a tinge of hope.