macro watercolor 4 / by Philip Tarlow

1:18 PM: today i made a new watercolor based, as are the others in this series, on photos shot with a macro attachment to my lens during our walks up the creek last summer. this one is a tree trunk. the inner area exposed by the parting outer bark, much like the human body, is more raw and fleshy in tone.

but, forgetting that it’s the trunk of a tree, one of the sources of much indigenous imagery can be seen.