HENNA TREE (HAND-DRAWN INK)

The trunk is striped like something ceremonial — vertical lines that suggest both wood grain and textile, interrupted by dot sequences that climb toward the canopy. The branches spread and curl, each one treated differently, some tapering to simple points, others ending in small decorated forms that might be leaves or might be something else entirely. In the lower right, a mountain range appears in a few spare lines, as if the tree exists at the edge of a larger world just coming into focus. The whole piece has the quality of something drawn slowly, section by section, each area resolved before moving to the next — the meditative mark-making of someone who is also a musician, which is to say, someone who understands that patience is a technique.