​​'Collective' is a photographic series by Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux. Over several years and across the many seemingly disparate locations that the artists have visited, they have met with and photographed hundreds of marked trees. In their images, the makers of the varied traces etched into or painted on each tree are absent. We are left to wonder who is responsible for these marks, and why? The photographs are hung in wooden frames correlating with the type of tree centred in each portrait. Moving between the photograph and the frame, the artists consider the distance between ‘wood’ and ‘trees’. The trees and their marks have told stories of loss, trauma, healing, renewal, cooperation, and guardianship. The series includes 24 Digital C-type prints in handmade aspen, bamboo, birch, cedar, eucalyptus, maple, oak, pine, and spruce frames. This work was made possible though support from The New Brunswick Arts Board.