Still Standing

Still Standing gives its full height to a weathered snag at the water's edge, bare-limbed and upright against a soft blue sky.

Age has refined this tree rather than reduced it. What was once a crown of branches is now a fine coral tracery drawn against the light, every line of it distinct, while the green around it comes on thick and quick and new — spruce massed deep behind, the water lying pale and unhurried, the reeds rising in long bright blades. The growth of a season keeps company with something that has weathered many.

NeuroArts pays attention to work in which damage and continuance occupy the same image: the storms are visible in this tree, and so is the fact that it is still here. That is what endurance looks like up close — marked by everything it has met, rooted where it has always been, and holding its place at the water while the light goes.

Details

• Oil painting on canvas

• Unframed

• Ready to hang

• Dimensions in inches: 24 wide x 20 high

• Ships with a tracking number via courier.