Article: Follow your dreams: tree of life: Laura Rinaldi Dufresne describes how Paula Smith's ceramic tree emerged.(Critical essay)

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Always considered a manifestation of divine presence, the tree of life has long been an object of veneration, as a symbol of the communication between the heavenly, earthly and lower realms.

Lucia Impelluso, Nature and Its Symbols, 2004 (16).

PAULA SMITH'S TREE OF LIFE is a majestic ceramic tree composed of 22 separate parts. It is as visionary as the medieval Rood, set against a robin's egg blue wall, with a shape suggesting several forms simultaneously: an ankh, a saguaro cactus, steer horns, even an exotic melding of a Mexican candelabra and a Jewish menorah. "All of these symbols, and more, contribute to the shape of my tree," explains ...

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