Pitons.
: a spike, wedge, or peg that is driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber).
Pitonographs? Can I coin a new word to describe some core images: this photograph was made in Toronto in 1987, in Wilket Creek Park at Leslie and Eglinton. Chaos softened by rain.
Pitonographs are photographs, not necessarily good photographs, but important for the anchoring that occurred when made. I’ve returned to this image over and over because of an epiphany of sorts, a connection that I made to the work of Paul Caponigro. Whenever I was lost, dismayed and or depressed about my inability to move forward with my work, I would look back at an image such as this and remember the astonishment I felt when I realized PC was photographing a landscape that made sense to me. His photographs from The Maine Woods are in a book I have by him called Seasons, a beautiful little treasure of a book, sadly, now water damaged……but still treasured.
aesthetic fabrications: Photographs by Don Wilson 
Must be missing something about this one. Probably has to do with my admittedly limited understanding and appreciation of landscape photography. Especially photos of trees.
Sort-of joke: Historians of Canadian art acknowledge that the genre faced a crisis in the late 1950s, when the last pine tree was painted.
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