The brief was the Gond tree of life told completely, root to canopy, with the soil line as the hinge. Gond cosmology doesn't stop at the ground: the roots are as alive as the branches, so the composition is split by a dotted earth line into a canopy-world and a root-world that mirror each other — birds nest in the crown above, fish swim through the roots below, and the rope-twist trunk stitches the two together. Vertical symmetry was the obvious move; a tree wants an axis, and it lets the deer and cow flank the trunk at the midline like guardians of the surface world. Sunflower discs and leaf-dots keep the crown alive without crowding it. Keeping it medium-light matters across both halves: open teal sky in the canopy, open charcoal soil below, so the eye reads the whole cycle at a glance and the rope-twist roots stay legible.