contemporary landscape painting

> The narrow platform ended midway between two trees. The first creature inline grabbed hold of a long vine and swung across to the far trunk—which Luke couldsee, by twisting his head around, had a large cavelike opening carved into its titanicsurface. Vines were quickly tossed back and forth across the chasm, until soon akind of lattice was constructed—and Luke found himself being pulled across it, on hisback, still tied to the wooden poles. He looked down once, into nothingness. Itwas an unwelcome sensation. On the other side they rested on a shaky, narrow platform until everyone wasacross. Then the diminutive monkey-bears dismantled the webbing of vines andproceeded into the tree with their captives. It was totally black inside, but Luke hadthe impression it was more of a tunnel through the wood than an actual cavern. Theimpression of dense, solid walls was everywhere, like a burrow in a mountain.When they emerged, fifty yards beyond, they were in the village square.