Pontchartrain is a beautiful hand screen print inspired by seventeenth-century Indian trees of life and their nineteenth-century European replicas — two moments of the same long infatuation, folded into one design. The hand screening keeps the drawing's warmth, and its scale border exists as a coordinated embroidery, Pontchartrain Contre-Fond. It is the tree-of-life tradition handled with scholarship and ease: a great subject, given room to climb.
