Mixed Media & Collage on Paper - Mayo Currach by James Edward Scherbarth

Fourteen torn gray strips line up on a coral ground like oars waiting for a crew.

This mixed media and collage on paper, Mayo Currach, is by James Edward Scherbarth, dated 2020, with the date 11-04-2020. A currach is the traditional boat of Ireland's west coast, a light wooden frame covered in hide or tarred canvas, and County Mayo is one of its old homes. Above, two rows of ragged gray and white strips, some marked with black, sit on a coral rectangle scribbled with fine dark line. Below, a hull-shaped form is built from layered gray, green and pink papers, crossed by thin dark lines and rimmed in coral. It is 12 inches wide and 16 high.

Seaworthy in spirit, if not in paper.