Oil on canvas 116.8 cm x 86.4 cm (46" x 34") By now we know too well that life—trees, plants, animals, fishes, and birds, as of course mankind itself—is threatened. By what or who? Of course ourselves, by our deeds and misdeeds. Are we not over-reaching ourselves? Treating the earth as a dispensable commodity? Given the mindlessness, the green cover that affords us ozone, that bestows on us fruits, flowers, and much else besides, melts away. And death looms on the horizon like a spectre. The artist, in painting trees, each interspersed carefully on her grid of patches of tilled fields, works out the silent mute language of germination and compassion. So these Facets are all important, that is, if we value life and living. The painter knows this very truth by instinct. And she is right, is she not?