mermaid in a sea of swirling air

Gloria drops her leaves

litter like silk puddles

around her on the ground

She’s nearly nude now

The wind rolls in like waves

breakers on hilltops

It spills, crashes into the valley

I feel like a mermaid

In a sea of swirling air

Gloria, the old white oak tree in our front yard. — Gloria, the Old Oak Tree in our front yard was the inspiration for the poem and the painting.

Twisted Tree No. 001 | In a Sea of Swirling Air | Mermaid

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Author/Artist Info
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Madison Woods is a self-taught artist who moved to the Ozarks from south Louisiana in 2005. In 2018 she began experimenting with watercolor painting, using her local pigments. She calls them Paleo Paints. In 2023 she began her journey into the world of oil painting with those same pigments. Her paintings of the Ozark-inspired scenes feature exclusively the lightfast pigments foraged from Madison county, Arkansas. Her inspiration is nature – the beauty, and the inherent cycle of life and death, destruction and regeneration. Wild Ozark is also the only licensed ginseng nursery in Arkansas. Here’s the link for more information on the nursery end of life out here.

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