A small child awakes to find blackened leaves falling from her bedroom ceiling threatening to quietly overwhelm her. Sometimes you wake up with nothing to look forward to.. . As she wanders around a world that is complex puzzling & alienating she is overtaken by a myriad of feelings. Just as it seems all hope is lost the girl returns to her bedroom to find that a tiny red seedling has grown to fill the room with warm light. Astonishing Perth artist Shaun Tans latest creation THE RED TREE is a book about feelings
- feelings that can not always be simply expressed in words. It is a series of imaginary landscapes conjured up by the wizardry of Shaun Tans masterful & miraculous art. As a kind of fable THE RED TREE seeks to remind us that though some bad feelings are inevitable they are always tempered by hope.