The Foundation of Things

I love Piet Mondrian's tree paintings. They range in style from post impressionistic to cubist. They form a visual pathway of Mondrian's artistic journey from representational to purely abstract. 

Evening: The Red Tree -Piet Mondrian

Horizontal Tree -Piet Mondrian

Apple Tree in Flower  -Piet Mondrian 

Mondrian wrote, "...I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation of things..." I think that's what good writer's do as well: Take the overwhelming complexity of the world and distill it down into a story that conveys the truth in a way that we can hold in our mind.

A sketch and some thoughts from my journal about truth. 

Because I love Mondrian's tree paintings so much, I decided to chop them into pieces and make them into a gaudy collage in my journal (sorry Piet).