Dense needles, bare stem

Two pine branches, each isolated on white. The upright one forks from a single knotted stem into three sub-branches, the needles tight enough to read as mass at a distance and individually legible at close range. The horizontal branch below is broader, flatter — a quieter silhouette. Between them: fine parallel lines suggesting bark, each needle drawn in alternating pairs along a central axis. No tone, no fill — only the accumulated weight of black line.