I arrived to the Puna District of the Big Island of Hawaii February 1st of 2025 to live on a six acre farm out in the boonies and became fascinated with the Cecropia paltata trees that grown in the rainforest around us. Also known as Trumpet tree and Sloth tree, the large fallen slightly curled silvery-white leaves that are brown on the underside looked like a crumpled wavy sea. I added the vibrant red flower pods with a pale yellow florescence that reminds me of dreadlocks. The trees are a neotropic genus native to the Northern part of the Andes in Ecuador and Colombia where they are found in the canopy of rain forests providing food and shelter for three-toed sloths who eat the leaves and flower pods known as “sloth chocolate” and is a primary food source.  They also grew in the Singapore Botanic Garden where I lived nearby, having been introduced in 1902, but I only recently learned that they are a treat for sloths.  I arranged the umbrella-like leaves as the background for the pods that contain the flower so the red would pop against the white to form a somewhat natural looking composition that might make nice wallpaper in a repeat pattern.