I want to share with you The Tree Show, an art exhibit in Los Angeles that I found through a posting on Jason Pitzl-Waters’ The Wild Hunt blog.

The Cernunnos sculpture and The Tree of Life study and painting (as seen in this blog) are haunting, creepy, and intriguing. Mark Ryden’s work has a kind of through the looking glass quality that beckons you to step through into a faery world that borders on the macabre. Ryden morphs a post-modern collection of children’s toys, kitsch art, and animistic awareness into a compelling, almost surrealist, vision of the black heart of innocence and wildness in danger of turning malevolent due to threats of destruction.

OK, I’ll step out of art historian mode. It’s been so long since I’ve gotten to enjoy the pretentious jargon of that world… and I like to stretch those muscles occasionally. Really, something about this work intrigues me so much that I wish I could hop on a plane to LA right now to see the show in real life.