Original Painting: Cusco by James Edward Scherbarth

The title names a city. The painting offers only a glow and some ruins of paint.

Cusco is an original painting by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), oil and cold wax medium on cradle board, signed and dated on the reverse 2016. Square abstract paintings of this kind are made for a wall of their own, where a viewer can stand in front of them and let a place come to mind. Salmon red burns at the top, above a crusted, dripping mass of bronze, silver and white. Dark blue closes in from the lower corners. Fine scratched lines catch the light. Thirty inches square.

It does not explain itself, which seems about right.