Tree of Life on green ground. A handmade, natural dye carpet woven by Suraya in Kosalar, Azerbaijan. The Tree of Life design holds [...]

During the regular dream meetings throughout the lockdown—languageofthedre.am—particularly in the early months of the pandemic, dreamers regularly reported vivid dreams of enormous trees. [...]

Creation of the Birds, Remedios Varo, 1957, oil on Masonite [...]

Johann Elias Ridinger, Schöpfung (Creation) Copperplate engraving, c. 1750 “A blinding light descends on Eden in the creation of man and the animals”: [...]

“How can an ant’s eye be lifted to the Pleiades?” 15th century illustrations of the mystical poem Mantiq al-tair, Language of the Birds, [...]

Olive Trees in Cavalière by Henri Charles Manguin, oil on canvas, 1906 [...]

In Ancient Egypt the sycamore tree was seen as a manifestation of the Goddesses Nut, Isis and Hathor “Lady of the Sycamore”. The [...]

Wall relief: the eagle-headed Apkallu tends the Tree of Life – pollinating the great tree with a pinecone, the ‘fruit of the Cedar’. [...]

Tree Nursery by Paul Klee, 1929 Klee used oil with incised gesso ground on the canvas to create an arboreal alphabet. [...]