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The water bottle theme got me thinking about the elements, air, earth, fire and water. How could I express them all in the piece? I realized that everyone associates the ubiquitous transparent bottle with water, fire can be expressed by using ashes, earth by using stones, and air is ever present and contained in the bottles. So if each bottle contains a quantity of each element, suspended from the tree at at a uniform height we have the plane of this earth, the celestial world is above the elements,  and below them the lower world.
The oak tree becomes the axis mundi with its roots in the underworld, its branches in the heavens.Â
I dreamed about a tree with bottles hanging from it on the same plane about a year ago, and made a sketch in my book. I guess this is what it was for.Â
