Highly formalized and geometric, Emily Carr’s Inside a Forest II seems to be painterly response to the question she herself posed in her diary in 1930: “What do these forests make you feel?” In the woods Carr, a fiercely independent and individualistic woman, found a sense of connectedness with the natural world. Inside a Forest II is as much about Carr’s rich internal life as it is about the forest around her, and the tight composition, warped scale, and geometric forms betray the relationship between artist and nature that suggest broader connections between self and environment.