What did the tree learn from the earth
to be able to talk with the sky?
–Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions
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I think that much of my work has to do with asking questions. Not necessarily about getting answers, mind you, but about making inquiries about those motivations and meanings of the world, both inner and outer. About trying to create a dialogue, a give and take between the worldly and the ethereal.
And that questioning, that conversation, is what I see in this simple, small painting.
Will there ever be an answer?
That can only be answered with another question: Who knows?
Redtree Times 
I think part of the reason a significant percentage of the human population gets along so well with cats is that both species are driven by that questioning trait we call “curiosity.”
Your post also reminds me of the reputed last words of the late, great Gertrude Stein on her deathbed: ““What is the answer?” she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: “Then, what is the question?”
Then there is the reasoned statement: “In order to understand the answer, you must first understand the question” on which that wonderful 5-book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” trilogy by Douglas Adams is based — So much of the plot revolves around the answer to the question of “Life, the Universe and Everything” which is, after a great deal of complicated goings on, discovered to be “42.”