Graphite & Colored Pencil on Paper - Traveler by James Edward Scherbarth

A stone hovers over a boat, and the boat seems to be waiting for it.

Traveler is a graphite and colored pencil drawing on paper by James Edward Scherbarth, dated 2020 and signed and dated 12-20-2020 on the verso. Graphite touched with colored pencil is a slow medium, built up in fine layers until a shape on the page seems to have weight. A long, pale, canoe-like hull floats across the lower half of the white sheet, shaded softly in gray. Above it hangs an oval stone in faint pink, marked with concentric rings. Nothing else intrudes. It is 16 inches wide and 12 high.

Somewhere, a very patient passenger.