The Roots Of Yggdrasil

Semi-constrained Lichtenberg figures on scavenged and upcycled wood, fractal-edged and finished in high gloss automotive varnish. iteration of Ygdrassil, the world tree of Norse mythology, sprouting out of the world’s continents, symbolizing the cyclicle nature of death, rebirth and the sacrifice enabling life. Odin, the Allfather himself, was hung upon the tree for nine days and nine nights, and sacrificed his eye, which he buried under the roots to achieve wisdom in the form of his two crows, Huginn (thought) and Muninn (Memory). Or in Jewish terminology - Odin hung himself on the tree of life to achieve the fruits of the tree of knowledge. To me, the subject is our responsibility to the biosphere, along a bit of compassion to a unsatisfactory speed with which we awake to the environmental catastrophe. It's easy to rage and proclaim all is lost, but it takes but it takes tenacity, sacrifice and and wise and new mythologies to raise solutions and realistic hope for a better future, lest the tree of life and the tree of knowledge will wither.