Through the depiction of trees, Sarah Loomis explores concepts of wounds and healing. Loomis investigates how wounds surface in our everyday experience, and if used as a tool for transformation, how they can be integral to change, healing, and growth. In her work, trees are metaphors for the human body and emotions, and the delicacy and complexity of this relationship. Like scars on a person's own skin, each mark on the tree describes a moment in time or experience, and like specific events in a person's own lives, the tree continues to grow and change after the mark has been made. Much like humans, trees are living representations of time and the phases of life, loss, and learning. Whether it is the wounding of the self or the wounding of the earth, it is the element of loss and healing in the course of the human experience that Loomis explores in her work.