He’s also often confused by art critic hacks who write about his paintings. For example, one recently wrote that he was “Illustrating the term ‘objectivism’ to denote a mythopoetical reality. Thus, the subject was interpolated into a dialectic paradigm of discourse that includes narrativity as a paradox.”

Van Bough doesn’t know what all that means. He was just painting a tree, really. All we can say is don’t worry about it, Van Bough. And welcome to the WoodChips Forest. We are quite partial to trees .