there is a time and place for everything

I wanted to keep using tree imagery as a metaphor for family ties and a support system. With this drawing I created a narrative of sorts, showing Germany as a place where life exists, but also using this idea of place as a puzzle piece of something larger and less definable: a lineage, history, a record of time and growth. Germany is physically and mentally part of a support; it is rooted. Simultaneously, it rests atop a cut tree. Death also becomes a part of the conversation, death of the tree, the past, and these roots and the beginning of a new identity flourishing on top, giving the tree new life and forging a symbiotic relationship.