| This work is from a series of portraits of old-growth pines in Northern Ontario. Robert photographed trees, which are on average 350 years old, and painstakingly reproduced thier texture, colour, and scale using watercolour on paper. The renderings are extremely detialed and dense; the artist includes pine needles, lichen and moss, all of which when viewed froma distance, provide an illusion to sculpture, as well as to photography. When viewed at very close range the pattern dissolves and becomes almost abstract. |