without context

It is said "context is everything". So without context, what do you see? A vertical rock face with deep fissures? Or perhaps, a close-up section of an old tree trunk?

 

It is, in fact, the latter.

 

The base of a Western Red Cedar tree (Thuja plicata), with its characteristic vertical fissures.

 

Olympus EM1 + Olympus 12-50mm.

Done