The tree of aims and objectives

A barefoot man in a pale shirt and trousers and a young woman in a graphic t-shirt and maroon trousers stand on either side of a tree trunk that fans out into an improbable abundance of pears, apples, oranges, a pineapple, and white and pink lilies. The man reaches toward the fruit while the woman, mid-step with one arm raised overhead, touches a small orange hanging low on the trunk between them.

Rendered with crisp, academic realism, the composition is dominated by cool greens of the foliage and warm yellows and oranges of the fruit, with a pale, hazy landscape glimpsed behind. The symmetrical, frieze-like arrangement of the couple beneath the fantastical tree gives the scene a staged, allegorical calm.