The Angel Tree

The many acres of ancient oak trees at Los Osos Oaks State Reserve in California provided the inspiration for my as yet unpublished and un-produced film treatment in the form of a novel entitled "The Angel Tree." The story of a young artist—a photographer—and his innocent folk-singer girlfriend, "The Angel Tree" is an allegory about the consequences of unbridled ambition. I took the photograph here as a sample of a mythological space—the kind of place my protagonist seeks in his attempts to "capture the world that exists behind the one we see." Below is a brief excerpt from the novel [forthcoming when I get time to type it out].