28 x 22"

Acrylic, Gallery Wrap

$700 USD

Ahhh the crooked tree! I have painted many a crooked tree over the years but this one was painted with Nora Bateson in mind. I had the opportunity to ask her how she would visualize her new word, symmathesy*, while on a zoom call with her. She paused a moment to consider then replied “a crooked tree".

*Her new word gives us an organic way looking at the whole of the process of inter-learning which prior to has been described more in terms of ‘parts and wholes’ which as she says “quickly slips into thinking in terms of arrangement and mechanistic function which gives rise to studying things, (even ideas?) in separate boxes. Nora’s word, Symmathesy, as a noun, means “an entity forming over time by contextual mutual learning through interaction" As a verb, Symmathesize means to generate mutual learning through the process of interaction between mutual variables in a living entity.

Both meanings open the doorway to new perspectives in our relationships not only to our environment but with ourselves and each other.