‘The mystery of abstraction’

"Winter Tree" (mixed media on paper), by Elise Freda, in her show "Garden (Un) Variety,'' at Inner Space Fine Arts, North Reading, Mass.

The gallery explains:

“This exhibition features uncommonly exquisite new works that explore the natural calligraphy and energy found in the trees, plants and flowers surrounding Freda’s studio in New York’s Catskill Mountains. The mystery of abstraction reveals itself through nature’s glorious and unending source of line, light, color, and form.’’

An 1852 map of Greater Boston, showing Reading and its rail lines. North Reading was still part of Reading then.