A vivid full- color surreal portrait, where the woman’s shoulders sink into tangled, dark roots, their surfaces layered with peeling, deep- red bark that crumbles at the edges. Her neck is a sturdy but weathered tree trunk, split in places where fresh golden sap oozes from deep cracks. Her face is serene, eyes closed, but from her scalp, a tangled mass of autumn- red branches rise into the air, covered in vibrant, crimson leaves. The wind pulls at her canopy, making her leaves scatter into the sky, their colors bright against the deep gray storm clouds rolling in the background. The world around her is in transition—the last remnants of autumn clinging to the edges of the landscape as winter slowly encroaches. The wind shifts again, carrying one final golden leaf upward, twirling against the backdrop of her dissolving branches
