This double portrait of brother and sister is set in the Hantsport family home. Robert painted his sister’s portrait and she painted his portrait. Coming up with an idea for an artwork that someone else then interprets (like a musical score anyone can play) is a notion central to conceptual art. Robert’s NSCAD experience challenged him to see art as a much broader activity than that practiced by a handful of old masters. At the time Janet was an artist who worked in fabric, not paint, so her rendering of Robert is more attuned to folk art. The background is a panorama of the interior that uses the front and back doors to bookend the composition. A fireplace serves as a wall between; its other face is reflected in the mirror behind. Through the glass door can be seen a distant orchard in the snow and a muddy brown river beyond that. Orchard and river motifs reappear in the “Seal Upon Thine Heart” series. This work showed in the “Oppositions” exhibition. The oppositions at play here are brother and sister, inside and outside, as well as the opposing painting styles of the two portraits.