The Chocolate Tree

A complex Composition may take a long time to compose.... Several female figures communicating their relaxed relationship within a safe , stylish comfortable environment or harvesting of the fruits, like a Van Gogh metamorphisis. Several figures in the field working within an orchard environment. Selecting ,reaching, placing , gathering and singing rythmically. Oranges , apples or grapes and carrying a woven cane basket. Working in the field, on the land , organically without machinery. Chocolate grows only 3 degrees north or south of the equator.* The oblong knobbly pod is not particularly attractive , it looks a bit like a custard apple and grows directly out from the trees' trunk . The sound of drums reverberating through the lush, humid forest. The Chocolate tree was originally discovered in the deep , dense, dark canopy covered rainforests of South Americas and was used as a mood enhancer , possibly also an entrancer in rituals. Explorers carefully carried and contained the revered cacoa seed, thinking nothing much of its bitter taste. Introduced and redeveloped in Europe from the fifteenth century. When the pod is cut open it looks a bit like a custard apple again. Dark, waxy seeds embedded within a pulpy flesh here and there. It is Cocoa seeds that are used to make our favorite chocolate! *(A few feet either way North or South of the Equator , water swirls downwards clockwise 4 North and anticlockwise 4 South.}