OTTAWA - Hovering between a camera and computer in a darkened Ottawa-area photo lab in 2021, Mylène Choquette had to step away to make sure her eyes weren’t fooling her.

The equipment had just taken the art analyst layers beneath the surface of a painting some were alleging famed Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau had made. To the naked, untrained eye, it sure looked like a Morrisseau with its bold shapes and thick black lines juxtaposed on a bright backdrop.