Thanks to her active engagement with the fine arts, Québécois author Louise Warren is an important figure for contemporary writing on art and for inter-artistic practices in literature. In Le Livre des branches. Dans l’atelier d’Alexandre Hollan [The Book of Branches. In Alexandre Hollan’s Studio], thirty-seven written fragments evoke the author’s stay in Hollan’s studio during his absence. Accompanied by photographs that equally suggest the artist’s presence and affirm his absence, the written fragments explore the affect, the imagination and the mystery that inform Warren’s perspectives on Hollan’s studio and his paintings. This study of Le Livre des branches examines similarities between various key aspects of the book: fragments, photographs, trees and references to the pictorial. This analysis is particularly interested in the ways in which these intersections support Warren’s conception of art.