These two drawings are Gaard's riff on the Kabbalist "Tree of Life." The first drawing has the title written in the upper left hand corner and the second drawing Frank Gaard's signiture in the lower right hand corner. Exhibitied at Gaard's retrospective at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN in 2012. The frames were made by the museum. Wikepedia: The ten Sephirot are a step-by-step process illuminating the Divine plan as it unfolds itself in Creation. They are fully found in the Medieval Kabbalah texts, such as the central work in Kabbalah, the Zohar. The Hebrew etymology of their names in Kabbalah is understood to refer to the nuanced aspects of meaning of each Sephirah. This direct connection between spiritual and physical creations and their Hebrew names, reflects the theology in Kabbalah that Creation is formed from the metaphorical speech of God, as in the first chapter of Genesis. Kabbalah expounds on the terms of the Sephirot. In the first complete systemisation of Kabbalah, in the 16th-century rational synthesis of Moshe Cordovero (Cordoveran Kabbalah), the Sephirot are listed from highest to lowest. 1. "Crown": Divine Will to create/Infinite Light of the Creator/the Hebrew name of God "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh-I Am that I Am." 2. "Binah-"Understanding": the infinite flash of Chochmah brought into the vessel of understanding to give it grasp of breadth and depth/feminine vessel that gives birth to the emotions/reason/understanding brings teshuva return to God 3. Chochmah-"Wisdom": First unbounded flash of an idea before it takes on limitations/male light/Divine Reality/first revelation/creation from nothingness. 4. Daat-"Knowledge": Central state of unity of the 10 Sephirot, also called the Tree of Life. 5. Chesed-"Kindness": Loving grace of free giving/love of God/inspiring vision. 6. Gevurah-"Severity": Strength/judgment/intention/withholding/awe of God. 7. Tiferet-"Beauty": Symmetry/balance between Chesed and Gevurah in compassion. 8. Netzach-"Victory." 9. Hod-"Splendor": Withdrawal/Surrender/sincerity. Yesod-"Foundation": Connecting to the task to accomplish/wholly remembering/coherent knowledge 10. Malchut-"Kingship": Female vessel for the pregnant nurturing of the male lights of the emotional sephirot into action/becomes the Keter Will source for any subsequent lower level in Creation/accomplishment/realization of the Divine Plan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.