Can't See the Forest for the Trees

This old tree, with its oddly bent trunk, vaguely resembled a huge hand with a wrist, up-turned palm and fingers. What would this tree look like if a mirror image of that hand-shape was flipped over and joined back onto itself? Maybe it would look like a "basket". But, the resulting image was much more than a container woven from branches: it was more like a color Rorschach Inkblot. The light and shadow on the leaves, combined with the patterns formed by the limbs, formed multiple abstract shapes; even shapes within shapes.