A friend told me her story of leaving home. She was a little girl and all the young families, after WW II got on a boat and left for Canada. They settled in North Burnaby. One uncle brought with him a stick from a fig tree. The story goes that most of the hundreds of fig trees in the city started from that stick.

woman contemplating a fig tree

acrylic on foambaord 

152 cm by 121 cm