David Hockney: A Bigger Picture

Hockney’s pictures of trees mesmerize. His huge canvas at the Royal Academy, made up of several hundred smaller canvases, speak to us of how we see the larger picture, but we see it in small chunks as our eyes move across whatever we look at. Those trees, though! Stark, bare, monumental, they tell us about the power of nature we so routinely overlook. Trees that grow slower than we do, live longer, stand more extreme circumstances. We are left in awe of such ordinary miracles…. And perhaps that’s the point.