The beach on Sanibel Island's (FL) Silver Key is laden — almost impassably so in places — with the trunks of fallen trees, their smooth, weatherworn, often almost lacey roots rising toward the sun like botanical spirits reaching for heaven. Here lie the remains of towering Australian pines tossed into a now peaceful Gulf of Mexico by storms long past. This painting looks back from the shoreline through the roots of one such tree toward the pine forest where it once undoubtedly stood, seemingly safe behind the Key's tallest dune.
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