A Twisted Dead Tree In Arizona

At first look its a little bizarre and otherworldly in a strange way, but a burning mountain on fire with a thunderous voice and shaking wasn't exactly a pretty landscape to the people leaving Egypt or to Moses who literally said that he was trembling at the site of it.

I don't think this causes too much shaking or trembling but there is a supernatural force and movement in the rhythms of the line and movements in the lines of the trees (thank God Van Gogh got the idea before me!)

There is a feeling of rushing water and life rising, even though the tree is literally dead, it carries a force and energy to it. The background with the canyons and bushes with the fiery reds reminded of a supernatural life, angelic beings that are all around it. Fire and water, separate yet stirring up between each other. Fire and water were often symbols of spirit and God's presence in the bible, so when I saw this dead tree and background from a photograph, I thought of pairing them up together.

Sometimes we put spiritual things as being pretty and floating, yet whenever someone saw an angel, they were terrified and the angel had to say to them, not to fear. Makes one wonder what they physically looked like to cause such a stir. I don't think they were pretty at all but a little fearsome, to make Daniel drop to his knees.