One Like Me envisions a being that grips the earth with its roots yet reaches past its borders with unruly limbs. Branches breaking through the glass dome are not escape but insistence the outward surge of a spirit that refuses containment.
Eyes nested along the trunk mark a pact with nature: to look and to be looked at to be mirrored by the olive tree and to rediscover the self in its patient, ancient pulse. The body of the tree becomes an inner atlas memory, breath and weather mapped as line and light.
Through mixed media, acrylic, and oil, DANIS cultivates a surface where restraint and overflow coexist. The work holds the paradox of belonging and beyond: roots anchor; branches translate; the soul leans outward, learning the sky by touch.