Heavily influenced by Edvard Munch’s painting The Voice, 1893, Robert depicts a woman in a glade of trees by the seashore. The tree trunks look like prison bars, a labyrinth or maze. Robert removes the moon from Munch’s image and replaces it with a seagull, a wandering spirit. Robert’s minimal approach to landscape allows him free reign for abstraction and symbolism, as well as offering a chance to experiment with painterly effects. Robert’s lonely figure-in-a-landscape plugs into an expressive Northern Romantic tradition. The lover here is pictured as a kind of explorer, someone venturing into new territory, uncharted regions. The dark shadows that hide the woman’s face give the mysterious figure the appearance of a sleepwalker as she navigates the columnated space around her, a space analogous to the confusing passageways to love.