The original drawing was done plein air in the Amazon forest, showing a strangler fig that's consumed another tree (they're vines that choke trees to death as they use them to get themselves up into the canopy. They become trees themselves, with rotting trees at their cores).
This is the original drawing done plein air in the Amazon forest. I extracted parts for the larger, more colorful piece.

I listened to this as I drew. The song, which is by an Elegant Woodcreeper, times out at 58 seconds long.

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