Crowhurst manifests Dean’s interest in the passage of time and the process of aging. One from her series Painted Trees, this photograph is of the storied Crowhurst Yew tree, located on the grounds of a church in Surrey, England, and said to be four thousand years old. In its recorded history, the tree has been the subject of an adulatory poem, struck by a cannonball, and hollowed out so its trunk could hold a table and benches; today it is bolstered by several wooden supports. Dean paints out the background of this monumental image, creating a sense of the elegiac and the ghostly, underscored by the fact that the yew shares its name with one of Dean's favorite subjects, the ill-fated English sailor Donald Crowhurst, who disappeared in the late 1960s during a solo round-the-world boat race.