The Tree is Man, Man is the Tree

Man is the Tree, the Tree is the Man (48 x 34) 1978.
“The Tree blossoms and bears fruit for those who abide in God.
Man is the Tree and the Tree is Man.
At the bottom of the tree is the serpent, at the top the eagle.
The serpent is the adversary of the eagle, and all the work of man consists of this: to unite the opposites, the bottom and the top, the left and the right of the Tree...
The Tree has a left and a right, which man must reconcile in himself through knowledge”
A. von Heuer: the 8th day or Adam’s debt.
Example of the relationship between symbolism and symbolism.
(Text commentary by Charles Sahuguet).

The Triumph of Adam (45 x 35.5) 1979.
The right-left structure is seen in relation to the Tree of Life.
The Tree of the knowledge of good and evil and death (skull) is linked to it on the left: Genesis places the two trees in the center of the Garden. The Phoenix is ​​at the center of the Tree, symbol of eternal life.
The serpent stands in the field, outside the Garden: “the serpent was the most cunning of the animals of the fields” (Gen. III, 1).
The field is the homeland of wild beasts and death, the Garden of Eden is the place of the unity of peace.
The serpent is standing.
Rabbi Ochaya said: “it was the leader of the animals, it stood straight like a reed” (Midrash Rabba. Gen. XIX).
To the right of the tree, the bull symbol of virile strength as seen in Numbers, XXIII, 22-XXIV, 8)
The First Adam comes out of the Tree of Life at the top of which comes the New Adam who touches the throne of God represented according to John Ap.I, 16 - IV, 6,7,8.
(Text commentary by Charles Sahuguet)