The other arm reaches in front of the wall to soar unencumbered to a cathedral ceiling, sprouting many boughs and sub-branches and twigs. Thus, we have brought into our home not only the traditional wood forms, such as floors and furniture which display color and grain, but also the more organic natural forms of curving branches. Sometimes, they seem like an outsized Ikebana arrangement. More often they remind me of what they are - trees. Roof A roof over one's head, shelter, is a basic human need.
Ceilings are the skies of our interior world.
Above our heads, the air moves. A roof creates the security of shelter. Now, one is protected from harsh sun, and from rain and snow. A roof makes a building a container, an enclosed space. Or it may be a canopy, which allows air and outdoors to circulate, uncontained, yet which still designates whatever is under the canopy as special.