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what we saw in the image of the floating tree

when we looked @

we saw

clouds

floating

life

family

roots that nurture

uprooted tree

growing grasping

unattached

unsupported

fiction

Escher

not even the sky is the limit

balance between roots and foliage

unnatural

winter/summer

vertigo

paradoxically abstract

abundance

illumination

connectedness

gathering storm

rising

square frame

screen

asymmetry

photograph in a box

wholeness

unconnected

exposed

reveal

waiting

anomaly

beauty

echo

and when we looked again, we did NOT see

earth

dirt

soil

grass

birds

shade

sun

reality

people

its story

the artist

attachment

it's silent: no sounds

other times of day

airplanes

balloons

change: it's static

weight

spring and fall

words

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