Weepy and her Pod Oil on Canvas 36 X 48 from the show, Conversations with Weepy.

I have been visiting my friend, Weepy, a 150-year-old English weeping beech tree in Yarmouth Port, MA, at least once a week for the past two years. Over this span of time, she has told me stories from her point of view and I have added my perspective while listening and taking photos from every angle. Sometimes I paint her literally, including her scars from unwelcome tattoos. When I see new carvings, I apologize for my species and hope it is not painful. She doesn't like it, but tells me she has the last laugh, when she has already outlived many of the culprits who have carried out this indecency.

Sometimes I paint from our conversations and people have their own perspective of its meaning. Sometimes she shows me private things. I paint them and hope she doesn’t mind. And sometimes things are kept confidential; some conversations are private between Weepy and me.