Original Painting: La Busqueda (The Quest) by James Edward Scherbarth

A thin black loop sits inside a pale ring, like a map of somewhere that keeps going round.

This original painting, La Busqueda (The Quest), is by James Edward Scherbarth, dated 2010, in oil and cold wax on cradle board, signed and dated en verso. Concentric circles and spirals turn up in art across many cultures, often read as images of a journey or a return. A wide, pale ochre ring sits in the lower half of a rusty orange field. Inside it, a looping black line circles a smaller dark spiral. Above, the panel lightens to cream and pale yellow, crossed by faint diagonal marks. It is 12 inches wide and 12 high.

The quest, it seems, is going in circles, and productively so.