I'm all about staring and dreaming, it's par for the course for me when making my art, so I can call it 'research' ;)

I love finding 'story' in things so I can make up all sorts of intricate tree people living in this bark. Those from the mossy bits are soon set to war with those on the smooth moss free island in the center, but they must devise away to get across the great barren empty sea of the crevasse in the center...and so on. :)

Good to see a fellow day dreamer and appreciator of gnarled old bark.