Money Tree (107)by Andrew Ekins Artists Statement Drawing is a crucial part of my practice as an artist. It provides a direct connection from initial thought to the physical embodiment of an idea, from the intimate, interior, imaginative state to that of the external world. It is, as Roland Barthes said the hands desire. For some time, obsessively, I have been drawing trees, skeletal, single, isolated, enduring: Godot like. With these Money Tree drawings I have been