Painting: Lost Tree in an Ancient Ocean

The last 20 plus posts here have been excerpts from my recent writings. So let's get back to basics with one of my recently completed watercolor paintings.

It is called "Lost Tree in an Ancient Ocean. Where I am from (Kansas) was the bottom of a vast, ancient ocean thousands of years ago. In the paintings, we see four crows (an ominous sign) on a  tree with limbs for branches. Only one of the tree branch's hands are closed. The rest are open or holding the birds.

"Lost Tree in Ancient Ocean" by Ed Tajchman © 2013. Watercolor. 

There is also a green and blue elephant-fish with a blue scepter. In my mind he is after what is in the closed hand, and has been hunting for this tree for a long time. This same scepter makes appearances in other paintings of min, I saw it in a dream once for the first time.